 Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And...  Present Day Papers - Page 181899Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1830 - 334 pages
...wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong! * During the forty years that followed his marriage, he had of course his occasional afflictions; he... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 pages
...The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile npon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; And fragrance...ancient Heavens through thee are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 858 pages
...know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh hefore thee on their heds; And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve...stars from wrong; And the most ancient Heavens through tin r are fresh and strong. To humhler functions, awful Power! I call thee : I myself commend Unto... | |
 | James Jolly - 1833 - 170 pages
...wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And Fragrance...ancient Heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power! I call thee; I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour;... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thec on their beds ; And fragrance in thy footing (reads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And the most ancient heavens through tbee are fresh and strong." Vol. ip 73. The two last lines seem to be utterly without meaning; at least... | |
 | 1854 - 332 pages
...benignant grace; Nor knew we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thoe on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. WOKDSWOBTH. "WHY do you dwell so much, dear mamma, upon the necessity of acting from a principle of... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1836 - 372 pages
...wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads." Having traced these facts back to their principles, there is a strong temptation to anticipate the... | |
 | John Frederick Denison Maurice - 1837 - 322 pages
...chartered * I need scarcely remind my readers of the beautiful passage in Wordsworth's Ode to Duty, ending, Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong. And the most...ancient Heavens, through Thee are fresh and strong, L 2 212 CEREMONIES. libertine, yet persuade itself that it can be free without being obedient, or that... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1840 - 464 pages
...The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds " And fragrance...treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And themost ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh andstrong . To humbler functions, awful Power ! I... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 414 pages
...wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads." Both as a moral and as a religious poet, Wordsworth may take a high station. In the latter point of... | |
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