A few strong instincts and a few plain rules Among the herdsmen of the Alps, have wrought More for mankind at this unhappy day Than all the pride of intellect and thought... Emerson at Home and Abroad - Page 304by Moncure Daniel Conway - 1883 - 309 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Wordsworth - 1889 - 1152 pages
...Beneath the brutal sword? — Her haughty Schools Shall blush ; and may not we with sorrow say— A frw strong instincts and a few plain rules, Among the...have wrought More for mankind at this unhappy day Then all the pride of intellect and thought ? 1809. "AND IS IT AMONG RUDE UNTUTORED DALES" AMD is it... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1889 - 140 pages
...deprest Beneath the brutal sword? Her haughty Schoolt Shall blush; amid may not we with sorrow say, A few strong instincts and a few plain rules, Among the herdsmen of the Alps, have wrought 8 So in Milton's VAllegro, 136: “And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.”... | |
| William Wordsworth, Henry Norman Hudson - 1889 - 251 pages
...Milton's VA llcgro, 1S6: " Ami in thy right hand lend with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty." More for mankind at this unhappy day Than all the pride of intellect and thought ? AND is it among rude untutor'd Dales, There, and there only, that the heart is true ? And, rising... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 476 pages
...contrasted with the Tyrol : — " Her haughty schools Shall blush ; and may not we with sorrow say — A few strong instincts, and a few plain rules, Among...unhappy day Than all the pride of intellect and thought ? " The regiment chiefly concerned was the 19th (for which regiment the word Wattdpolowa, the scene... | |
| William Carlos Martyn - 1890 - 632 pages
...And Wordsworth testifies that, while German schools might well blush for their subserviency, — " A few strong instincts and a few plain rules. Among...day Than all the pride of intellect and thought." Wycliffe was, no doubt, a learned man. But the learning of his day would have burned him, had it dared,... | |
| William Carlos Martyn - 1890 - 608 pages
...while German schools might well blush for their subserviency, — " A few strong instincts and a iVw plain rules, Among the herdsmen of the Alps, have...day Than all the pride of intellect and thought." Wycliffe was, no doubt, a learned man. But the learning of f1is day would have burned him, had it dared,... | |
| Wendell Phillips - 1891 - 502 pages
...And Wordsworth testifies, that, while German schools might well blush for their subserviency, — " A few strong instincts and a few plain rules, Among the herdsmen of the Alps, have wronght More for mankind at this unhappy day Than all the pride of intellect and thought." Wycliffe... | |
| Wendell Phillips - 1891 - 584 pages
...philosophy Wordsworth said, of a similar awakening : " A few strong instincts, and a few plain rales, Among the herdsmen of the Alps, have wrought More for mankind, at this unhsippy day, Than all the pride of intellect and thought." That sunrise has colored the'whole morning... | |
| Wendell Phillips - 1894 - 592 pages
...philosophy Wordsworth said, of a similar awakening : " A few strong instincts, and a few plain roles, Among the herdsmen of the Alps, have wrought More...day, Than all the pride of intellect and thought." That sunrise has colored the whole morning of our history. It is the cardinal principle of our national... | |
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