 Their leafy umbrage, turns the dusky veil Into a substance glorious as her own, Yea with her own incorporated, by power Capacious and serene. Like power abides In Man's celestial Spirit ; Virtue thus Sets forth and magnifies herself; thus feeds A calm,...  The Quarterly Review - Page 105edited by - 1815Full view - About this book
 | David Grant - English poetry - 1865 - 428 pages
...forth and magnifies herself ; thus feeds A calm, a beautiful, and silent fire, From the encumbrances of mortal life, From error, disappointment, — nay,...Justice wills, From palpable oppressions of despair. WORDSWORTH. VIRTUE. thee inspired, O Virtue ! age is young, And music warbles from the faltering tongue... | |
 | Great Britain - 1866 - 552 pages
...lofty grove, Burns like an unconsuming fire of light In the £rreen trees- and kinillino- on all sides From error, disappointment, nay from guilt ; And sometimes...Justice wills From palpable oppressions of Despair." We find in Southey's "Rhoderick" a passage containing a similar spirit of moral application :— "... | |
 | Great Britain - 1867 - 972 pages
...forth and magnifies herself; thus feeds A calm, a beautiful, and silent fire, From the encumbrances of mortal life, From error, disappointment — nay,...Justice wills, From palpable oppressions of despair." We have here a striking exemplißcation of that which constitutes Wordsworth's speciality as the poet... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pages
...forth and magnifies herself ; thus feeds A calm, a beautiful, and silent fire, From the encumbrances of mortal life, From error, disappointment, — nay,...Justice wills, From palpable oppressions of despair. Ibid. It was a day, One of those heavenly days which cannot die, When forth I sallied from our cottage-door,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1869 - 752 pages
...beautiful, and silent fire, From the encumbrances of mortal life, From error, disappointment—nay, from guilt; And sometimes, so relenting justice wills, From palpable oppressions of despair." The Solitary by these words was touched With manifest emotion, and exclaimed; "But how begin! and whence!—'The... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...forth and magnifies herself ; thus feeds A calm, a beautiful, and silent fire, From the encumbrances of mortal life, From error, disappointment, — nay,...Justice wills, From palpable oppressions of Despair. JAMES MONTGOMERY. (1771-1854.) The impression created on Cowper's mind by the perusal of Johnson's... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870 - 474 pages
...forth and magnifies herself; thus feeds A calm, a beautiful, and silent fire, From the encumbrances of mortal life, From error, disappointment — nay,...justice wills, From palpable oppressions of despair." The Solitary by these words was touched "With manifest emotion, and exclaimed ; " But how begin ? and... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - Christianity - 1870 - 174 pages
...in faith a power abides which can feed ' A calm, a beautiful, and silent fhe, From the encumbrances of mortal life, From error, disappointment — nay,...justice wills, From palpable oppressions of despair.' It is a ' many-chambered' school that in which God trains. None are excluded from it, all are welcome.... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - Christianity - 1871 - 210 pages
...a purpose not alien to their own, — in faith a power abides which can feed " A calm, a beautiful, and silent fire, From the incumbrances of mortal life,...disappointment, — nay, from guilt; And sometimes, co relenting justice wills, From palpable oppressions of despair." It is a " many-chambered " school,... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 pages
...forth and magnifies herself; thus feeds A calm, a heautiful, and silent fire, From the encumhrances of mortal life, From error, disappointment— nay,...; And sometimes, so relenting justice wills, From palpahle oppressions of despair." The Solitary hy these words was touched With manifest emotion, and... | |
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