 Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did...  The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 265by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 635 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1899 - 308 pages
...power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. France lacks GREAT men have been among us; hands that penned Great Men And tongues... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 pages
...Star, and dwell apart : WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS. Thou 1ml- 1 a Yoice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties OD herself did lay. GIEAT Meu have been among us; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom,... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea ; Pure as the naked heavens, majestie, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. SONNET. ON THE FINAL SUBMISSION OF THE TYROLESE, IT was a moral end for which they... | |
 | 1839 - 512 pages
...power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." Work*, p. 213. But we pass on to notice Wordsworth's power of description, as a second... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1832 - 264 pages
...lines of Wordsworth apply to his character:— " Thy soul was like a Star and dwelt apart: Pure aa the naked heavens, majestic free, ******* So dids't...thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay." My father was a courtier, at least he was frequently about the person of our good king; but it might... | |
 | 1833 - 240 pages
...power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. 201 202 WILLIAM WORDSWOUTH. TO THE MEN OF KENT. 1803. VANGUARD of Liberty, ye Men... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea ; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst...thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay." Vol. ip 140. We make room for this other; though the four first lines arc bad, and " week-day man"... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...common duties of life. Well might Wordsworth sii\g : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea, Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free : So didst...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. Yet a while longer his harp was left in the hands of the guardian Muse. The strings... | |
 | 1836 - 532 pages
...power. Thy soul was like a Star and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea ; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. Who that has read " meek Walton" will not answer to the perfect truth of the following... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 348 pages
...power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea; Pure as the naked heavens — majestic, free, So didst...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lav. COMPOSED OPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. EARTH has not any thing to show more fair : Dull... | |
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