BEHOLD a pupil of the monkish gown, The pious ALFRED, King to Justice dear ! Lord of the harp and liberating spear ; Mirror of Princes ! Indigent Renown Might range the starry ether for a crown Equal to his deserts... The poetical works of William Wordsworth - Page 218by William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1840Full view - About this book
| Henry C. Shelley - 1909 - 426 lehte
...choicest fruits of English poesy. MEDALLION ON HOOD'S MONUMENT XI ROYAL WINCHESTER XT ROYAL WINCHESTER " Behold a pupil of the monkish gown, The pious ALFRED, King to Justice dear ! Lord oj the harp and liberating spear ; Mirror oj Princes ! Indigent Renown Might range the starry ether... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1908 - 586 lehte
...posterity. 1 He expired dictating the last words of a translation of St. John's Gospel. XXVI ALFRED I EHOLD a pupil of the monkish gown, The pious ALFRED, King to Justice dear ! ord of the harp and liberating spear ; Mirror of Princes ! Indigent Renown Might range the starry... | |
| Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 lehte
...Miscellanies, Esthetic and Literary, p. 94. Lord of the harp and liberating spear ; Mirror of princes 1 Indigent Renown Might range the starry ether for a crown Equal to his deserts. — WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM, 1821-22, Ecclesiastical Sonnets, pt. I, xxvi. Greater and better earned glory... | |
| George Frederick Bosworth - 1914 - 230 lehte
...but we must reserve an account of his writings and translations for the succeeding chapters. Alfred. Behold a pupil of the monkish gown, The pious ALFRED,...mercy-tempered frown. Ease from this noble miser of his time Though small his kingdom as a spark or gem, Of Alfred boasts remote Jerusalem, And Christian India,... | |
| Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1914 - 342 lehte
...world " ; " Reproof," a tribute to the historian Bede; " Saxon Monasteries " ; "Alfred " as it opens, " Behold a pupil of the monkish gown, The pious Alfred,...of the harp and liberating spear; Mirror of Princes " ; " The Norman Conquest "; " Wickliffe," as the forerunner of the English Reformation; " Corruptions... | |
| William Wordsworth, Abbie Findlay Potts - 1922 - 364 lehte
...their Arts, — but classic lore glides on By these Religious saved for all posterity. 1.26 ALFRED BEHOLD a pupil of the monkish gown, The pious ALFRED,...Indigent Renown Might range the starry ether for a crown 5 Equal to his deserts, who, like the year, Pours forth his bounty, like the day doth cheer, And awes... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1927 - 734 lehte
...their Arts, — but classic lore glides on By these Religious saved for all posterity. XXVI ALFRED BEHOLD a pupil of the monkish gown, The pious ALFRED, King to Justice dear 1 1 He expired dictating the last words of a translation of St John's Gospel. »• • Lord of the... | |
| Henry Charles Shelley - 1906 - 438 lehte
...fruits of English poesy. MEDALLION ON HOOD'S MONUMENT 366 ROYAL WINCHESTER XI Xl ROYAL WINCHESTER " Behold a pupil of the monkish gown, The pious ALFRED,...dear ! Lord of the harp and liberating spear ; Mirror oj Prinves ! Indigent Renown Might range the starry ether for a crown Equal to HIS deserts." WILLIAM... | |
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