 ... simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A Traveller between life and death; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight,...  Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age - Page 232edited by - 1847Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1836 - 368 pages
...reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill ; A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel-light. 1804. 0 NIGHTINGALE ! thou surely art A creature of a fiery heart : — These notes of... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1839 - 540 pages
...reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill ; A perfect Woman, nobly planned,, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel-light." Into his pictures of female gracefulness, Wordsworth incorporates his love of external... | |
 | 1839 - 538 pages
...reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill ; A perfect Woman, nobly planned. To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, anJ bright With something of an angel-light." Into his pictures of female gracefulness, Wordsworth... | |
 | Harriet Mozley - 1841 - 374 pages
.... " A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller between life and death ; A perfect woman nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a spirit still and bright, With something of an angel-light." Yes, I repeat, had my affections been mine to bestow, I should have been daring enough... | |
 | 1841 - 686 pages
...Woman too ! Her household motions light and free, And steps of virgin-liberty A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel-light. WORDSWORTH. " THE gloom, which had for some time been lowering darkly round our house,... | |
 | 1872 - 858 pages
...companion of the man she loved, and the mother of his children : — A perfect woman, nobly plann'd To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of angelio light But the storm fell ; and. as a recent critic has remarked, Mary could hardly... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
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 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 pages
...reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill ; A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light. 0 NIGHTINGALE ! thou surely art A creature of a ' fiery heart ' : — These... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill ; A perfeet Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light. I804. IX. O NIGHTINGALE ! thou surely art A creature of a ' fiery heart... | |
 | 1846 - 302 pages
...reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill ; A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel-light. Who knows that truth is strong next to the Almighty ; she needs no policies, no stratagems,... | |
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