 | Thomas Erskine - 1877 - 468 pages
...Stirling what Wordsworth said of his dear sister Dorothy : — ' She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears ; And love, and thought, and joy.' After her short and childless married life, Mrs. Stirling returned to Linlathen to be more to him than... | |
 | Thomas Erskine - 1877 - 462 pages
...Stirling what Wordsworth said of his dear sister Dorothy : — ' She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears ; And love, and thought, and joy.' After her short and childless married life, Mrs. Stirling returned to Linlathen to be more to him than... | |
 | William Angus Knight, William Wordsworth - 1878 - 284 pages
...her, being then A little Prattler among men. The Blessing of my later years Was with me when a boy : She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; And humble cares,...fountain of sweet tears ; And love, and thought, and joy. 1 In the thirteenth book of The Prelude there is an allusion to an experience of childhood, which must... | |
 | William Chambers - 1878 - 334 pages
...heart Whence genuine knowledge grew. No wonder that he acknowledges Dorothy's services in the lines : She gave me eyes, she gave me ears, And humble cares...fountain of sweet tears, And love, and thought, and joy. The brother and sister first settled in a retired home in Dorsetshire in 1795, and there Wordsworth... | |
 | William Francis Ainsworth - 1878 - 738 pages
...office upon earth." She was more than muse to him ; more than the mighty afflatus of the elder gods— "She gave me eyes, she gave me ears. And humble cares,...fears, A heart. the fountain of sweet tears, And love, aud thought, and joy." She went with him to Germany in his early manhood ; she walked with him from... | |
 | William Francis Ainsworth - 1878 - 738 pages
...office upon earth." She was more than muse to him ; more than the mighty afflatus of the elder gods — "She gave me eyes, she gave me ears. And humble cares,...fears, A heart. the fountain of sweet tears, And love, aud thought, and joy." She went with him to Germany in his early manhood ; she walked with him from... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 pages
...interruption. Speaking of the power and refreshment of his sister's ministry at this time, Wordsworth says : " She gave me eyes, she gave me ears, And humble cares and delicate fcare ; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears, And love and thought and Joy." The cold winter of 1798... | |
 | 1878 - 732 pages
...office upon earth." She was more than muse to him ; more than the mighty afflatus of the elder gods — "She gave me eyes, she gave me ears, And humble cares, and delicate foars, A heart, the fountain of sweet teurs, And love, and thought, and joy." She went with him to... | |
 | William Rounseville Alger - 1879 - 814 pages
...influence on him, he thanks God, and says, — The blessing of my later years Was with me when a boy. . She gave me eyes, she gave me ears, And humble cares...fountain of sweet tears; And love and thought and joy. They took a cottage at Grasmere, where they lived by themselves until William's marriage ; nor were... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1879 - 390 pages
...her, being then A little Prattler among men. The Blessing of my later years Was with me when a Boy : She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; And humble cares,...fountain of sweet tears ; And love, and thought, and joy. TO A BUTTERFLY. I 'VE watched you now a full half-hour, Self-poised upon that yellow flower ; And,... | |
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The Blessing of my later years Was with me when a boy : She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; And humble cares, and delicate fears ; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears ; And love, and thought, and joy. 
