| George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 464 pages
...respects, a perfect illustration of Wordsworth's fine lines on the character of the Happy Warrior:' — " Whose powers shed round him in the common strife,...face Some awful moment, to which Heaven has joined t Great issues, good or bad, for human kind, Is happy aa a lover, and attired With sudden brightness,... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 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,...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 - 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... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1837 - 374 pages
...down by their guns, and there slept, almost by the side, as it were, of their sleeping enemy. ESSAY V. Whose powers shed round him in the common strife Or...upon to face Some awful moment, to which heaven has join'd Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a lover, is attired With sudden brightness... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1840 - 464 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....Lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Alan inspired ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he... | |
| 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... | |
| 1843
...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 join'd Great issues, good or bad, for human kind, Is happy as a lover, and attired With sudden brightness,... | |
| Henry Clay - 1842 - 576 pages
...common strife, Or mild concerns, of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if called upon to face Some awful moment, to which heaven...good or bad, for human kind, Is happy as a lover— is attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired ; And through the heat of conflict keeps the... | |
| Henry Clay - 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 - 1843 - 544 pages
...Or mild concerns, of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if called npon to face Some awful moment, to which heaven has joined...good or bad, for human kind, Is happy as a lover— is attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired ; And through the heat of conflict keeps the... | |
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