 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
 | 1896 - 1224 lehte
...take when once ' tis offer'd, Shall never find it more. r. Antony and Cleopatra. Act II. Sc. 7. L. 89. ast Minstrel. Canto VI. St. 1. Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e' s. WORDSWORTH — Desultory Stanzas. ORACLE. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro'... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1899 - 1284 lehte
...before them the ideal of a great teacher and turn all " the current of their lives " to realize it — " Filling the soul with sentiments august, The beautiful, the brave, the holy and the just." Merely trained teachers are like trained horses, or birds, or servants — good enough where someone... | |
 | New York (State) Constitutional Convention (1894) - 1900 - 1218 lehte
...life, her truest, and highest and holiest dominion in the effect of spotless precept and example. " Filling the soul with sentiments august, The beautiful, the brave, the holy and the just." Such, sir, is the high and congenial place assigned to woman .in the social and political fabric of... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 lehte
...take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth. Sky-Prospectfrom the Plain of France. Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold. Dezaltory Stami. Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 930 lehte
...petitions, pity and remorse, Cool and congeal again to what it was. King John, Act ii. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE. Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold. Desultory Stanzas. w. WORDSWORTH. ORATORY. But, spite of all the criticising elves, Those who would... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1908 - 586 lehte
...timid likings kill. — Long may these homely Works devised of old, These simple efforts of Helvetian skill, Aid, with congenial influence, to uphold The...to gold ; Filling the soul with sentiments august — 80 The beautiful, the brave, the holy, and the just ! No more ; Time halts not in his noiseless... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 lehte
...opportunity. — Chasles. Who makes quick u»e of the moment, ia a genius of prudence. — Lavater. Turning, for them who pass, the common dust of servile opportunity to gold. — Wordsworth. What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An nnfecundated egg, which the waves... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 776 lehte
...opportunity. — Chasles. Who makes quick uxe of the moment, in a genius of prudence. — l-aaater. arns to economize his time. — .Sir M. Hale. I would have inscribed on the — WortUnnorih. What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfeoiindated egg, which tlie... | |
 | 1912 - 652 lehte
...any author not to fall short in the expression of such a divine conception. He is one who turns ' ' The common dust Of servile opportunity to gold, Filling...The beautiful, the brave, the holy and the just." The blank verse of Milton has greater freedom and flexibility than that of any earlier poet. The secret... | |
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