 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1834 - 450 pages
...Wordsworth's fine lines on the character of ' the Happy Warrior,' — " Whose powers shed round him iu the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life,...upon to face Some awful moment, to which Heaven has joined Cireat issues, good or bad, for human kind, Is happy 0s a lover, and attired With sudden brightness,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1836 - 588 pages
...and the effect produced by the daily beauty of his life upon all who approached him. He was a man, " Whose powers shed round him in the common strife,...ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace. " To converse with him was like beholding virtue in a visible shape ; and no susceptible person could... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1841 - 448 pages
...understanding was enlightened. This was the " spirit of love," as well as of " a sound mind," which " Shed round him in the common strife Or mild concerns...ordinary life A constant influence, a peculiar grace " Even the influence and the grace which ever accompanies the teaching of him who is himself taught... | |
 | Henry Clay - Campaign literature - 1843 - 554 pages
...as in the most trivial concerns. In the beautiful words of WORDSWORTH, we may describe him as one, " Whose powers shed round him in the common strife,...constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if called upon to. faee Some awful moment, to which heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad, for human... | |
 | Henry Clay - Campaign literature - 1843 - 630 pages
...in. the most trivial concerns. In the beautiful words of WORDSWORTH, we may describe him as one, " Whose powers shed round him in the common strife....ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; Bat who, if called upon to face Some awful moment, to which heaven has joined Great issues, good... | |
 | Henry Clay - Campaign literature - 1843 - 1144 pages
...may describe him as one, " \vi, , -• powers ghed round him in the common strife. Or mild concern*, of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if called upon to face Some awful moment, to which heaven has joined Great iaracs, good or bad, for human... | |
 | CALCUTTA INDIA - 1844 - 650 pages
...worldly state ; Whom they must follow on whose head must fall Like showers of manna if they come at all: Whose powers shed round him in the common strife,...ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; Hut who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which heaven has joined (¡reat issues... | |
 | American periodicals - 1850 - 638 pages
...endure, As more exposed to suffering and distress ; Hence, also, more alive to tenderness. 'T is heWhose powers shed round him in the common strife Or mild...ordinary life — A constant influence, a peculiar grace. In his poetry was Southey's great refuge from everything that distressed or afflicted him. Poetry was... | |
 | Literature - 1920 - 850 pages
...to a type which was very real, and which was very near to that ideal of Wordsworth's, when he wrote: But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a lover; and attired With sudden brightness,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...state ; Whom they must follow ; on whose head must fall, Like showers of manna, if they come at all : Whose powers shed round him in the common strife,...upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, s в 2 372 POEMS OF SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION. T Is... | |
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But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired... 
