 Raised up to sway the world, to do, undo, With mighty Nations for his underlings, The great events with which old story rings Seem vain and hollow ; I find nothing great : Nothing is left which I can venerate ; So that a doubt almost within me springs...  The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth - Page 226by William Wordsworth - 1820Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 574 pages
...offences be a heavy weight : Oh grief ! that earth's best hopes rest all with thee ! XXIL OCTOBER 1803. WHEN, looking on the present face of things, I see...venerate ; So that almost a doubt within me springs Of Providence, such emptiness at length Seems at the heart of all things. But great God I I measure... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1880 - 330 pages
...freight Of thy offences be a heavy weight : Oh, grief! that earth's best hopes rest all with thee ! When, looking on the present face of things, I see...venerate ; So that almost a doubt within me springs Of Providence, such emptiness at length Seems at the heart of all things. But, great God 1 I measure... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1880 - 738 pages
...offences be a heavy weight : 0, grief that Earth's best hopes rest all with Thee! OCTOBER, 1803. liaised up to sway the world, to do, undo, With mighty Nations...Seem vain and hollow ; I find nothing great; Nothing ia left which I can venerate : So that a doubt almost within me springs Of Providence, such emptiness... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 pages
...offences be a heavy weight : Ob, grief : that earth's best hopes rest all with thee ! OCTOBER, 1803. WHEN, looking on the present face of things. I see one man. of men the meanest too ! kaised up to sway the world, to do. undo, With mighty nations for his underlings. The great events... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1881 - 732 pages
...offences be a heavy weight : Oh grief that Earth's best hopes rest all with Thee ! XXII. OCTOBER, 1803. WHEN, looking on the present face of things, I see...the world, to do. undo, With mighty Nations for his under'ings, The great events with which old story tu'.gji Seen vain and hollow ; I find nothing great... | |
 | Frederic William Henry Myers - Authors, English - 1881 - 204 pages
...men the meanest too," — for such the First Consul must needs appear to the moralist's eye, — was Raised up to sway the world — to do, undo ; With mighty nations for his underlings. And history herself seemed vulgarized by the repetition of her ancient tales of war and overthrow on... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1882 - 520 pages
...offences be a heavy weight : Oh grief that Earth's best hopes rest all with Thee ' XXII. OCTOBEE, 1803. WHEN, looking on the present face of things, I see...Seem vain and hollow ; I find nothing great : Nothing ls left which I can venerate; So that a doubt almost within me springs Of Providence, such emptiness... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1882 - 642 pages
...hest hopes rest all with Thee' XXIL OCTOBEE, i803. WHSN, looking on the present face of things, 1 sec one Man, of men the meanest too ! Raised up to sway...great : Nothing is left which I can venerate ; So that a douht almost within me springs ' if Providence, such emptiness at length Seems at the heart of all... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1882 - 720 pages
...thy offences be a heavy weight : O, grief that Earth's best hopes rest all with Thee! OCTOBER, 1803. Raised up to sway the world, to do, undo, With mighty...great ; .Nothing is left which I can venerate: So that a doubt almost within me springs Of Providence, such emptiness at length Seems at the heart of all... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1882 - 422 pages
...weight : Oh grief that Earth's best hopes rest all with Thee ! OCTOBER, 1803. Comp. 1803. Pub. 1807. When, looking on the present face of things, I see one Man, of men the meanest too ! Eaised up to sway the world, to do, undo, With mighty Nations for his underlings, The great events... | |
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