 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
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 pages
...man's celestial spirit ; virtue thus Sets forth and magnifies herself; thus feeds A calm, a beautiful, and silent fire. From the incumbrances of mortal life....justice wills, From palpable oppressions of despair, The Solitarv by these words was touched With manifest emotion, and exclaimed, " But how begin ? and... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 648 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 SEA SHELL.] I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Life skills - 1880 - 394 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. " Mr. Hutton speaks of Wordsworth as the most solitary of poets. Of him may be said, as he himself... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 650 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 SEA SHELL.] I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1880 - 870 pages
...forth and magnifies herself; thus feeds A calm, a beautiful, and silent fire From the encumbrances of mortal life, From error, disappointment, — nay,...guilt; And sometimes, so relenting Justice wills, Vrom palpable oppressions of Despair. WORMWORTB PREFACE RODERICK, THE LAST OF THE GOTHS. Tins poem... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 826 pages
...forth and magnifies herself— thus feeds A calm, a beautiful, and silent fire, From the encumbrances of mortal life ; From error, disappointment — nay....from guilt; And sometimes— so relenting justice wilts — From palpable oppressions of despair. Book IV. In a still loftier style of moral observation... | |
 | Passages, John Allen Giles - English poetry - 1881 - 744 pages
...mail's celestial spirit. Virtue thus Sets forth and magnifies herself ; thus feeds A calm, a beautiful, and silent fire From the incumbrances of mortal life,...Justice wills) From palpable oppressions of despair. CCLXXI. JOHN TOBIN, 1770—1804 WOMEN'S OBNAMENTS. I'll have no glittering gewgaws stuck about you,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 654 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 SEA SHELL.] I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1881 - 732 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 Solitarv by these words was touched With manifest emotion, and exclaimed ; " But how begin ? and... | |
 | Kathleen Knox - English language - 1882 - 156 pages
...forth and magnifies herself ; thus feeds 15 A calm, a beautiful, and silent fire, From the encumbrances of mortal life, From error, disappointment, nay, from...justice wills, From palpable oppressions of despair. 20 2. Explain the words " interpositions " and " contingencies." (Lines 2, 4.) 3. What is the antecedent... | |
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