 Long may these homely works devised of old, These simple efforts of Helvetian skill, Aid, with congenial influence, to uphold The state, the country's destiny to mould ; Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold ; Filling...  The poetical works of William Wordsworth - Page 180by William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1840Full view - About this book
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 lehte
...and the execution, flriely illustrates the power of the imagination, its moral alchemy in "Turning the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold ; Filling...The beautiful, the brave, the holy, and the just." — Wordmorih. For, observe on what homely and familar incident the poet has built up this beautiful... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 372 lehte
...hecause occasions rise So often that demand such sacrifice. WORDSWORTH. ' Character of the Sappy Warrm 4 Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile...gold ; Filling the soul with sentiments august— The heautiful, the hrave, the holy, and the just ! ' Desuit ,' i Stanzas,' p 269.] Exercise. " Waller preserved... | |
 | 1856 - 732 lehte
...teaching the purifying and exalting influence of love to man and love to God. Thus, " Filling the mind with sentiments august, The beautiful, the brave, the holy and the just," imagination helps to raise the soul above the tinseled vanity of the world, and ennoble it with a sturdy... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1857 - 494 lehte
...mellow, and shedding into it the perfusive and vivifying grace of honourable thoughts, Filling the son! with sentiments august, The beautiful, the brave, the holy, and the just. Another use of literary studies, and which is near akin to the one last in question, is, to give the... | |
 | 1865 - 496 lehte
...their reputation. The ingenious dreamer merits the admiration of this sinful world for so — " Turning the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold, '^££""...'•" '' Filling the soul with sentiments august, !^K' '° ''-^'" The beautiful, the brave, the holy, and the jiSni"J '•"•-" The publishers of this... | |
 | Samuel Manning - 1866 - 248 lehte
...mountains beyond. " Long may these homely works, devised of old, These simple efforts of Helvetian skill, Aid, with congenial influence, to uphold The...The beautiful, the brave, the holy, and the just." — WORDSWORTH. SUNRISE ON THE RIGHI. 39 The monument to the memory of the faithful Swiss Guard, who... | |
 | Samuel Manning - 1866 - 228 lehte
...mountains beyond. " Long may these homely works, devised of old, These simple efforts of Helvetian skill, Aid with congenial influence, to uphold The...The beautiful, the brave, the holy, and the just." 39 The monument to the memory of the faithful Swiss Guard, who fell on the 10th of August, 1792, while... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1866 - 376 lehte
...forces of the present, to stream into our spirits the resistless energies wliich gladden theirs : — " Filling the soul with sentiments august ; The beautiful, the brave, the holy, and the just." f V. THE AMERICAN MIND. IN studying literature and history, we are at first attracted by particular... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1869 - 752 lehte
...These simple efforts of Helvetian skill, Aid, with congenial influence, to uphold The State,—the Country's destiny to mould ; Turning, for them who...march— Nor turns, nor winds, as doth the liquid flood; I Life slips from underneath us, like that arch Of airy workmanship whereon we stood, Earth stretched... | |
 | Appleton D. and co - 1870 - 900 lehte
...last-mentioned bridge : "Long may those homely works, devised of old, These simple efforts of Helvetian skill, Aid, with congenial influence, to uphold The state — the country's destiny to moa Id; Turning, for them who pass, the common dast Of servile opportnnity to gold; Filling the soul... | |
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