 | Holy thoughts - 1882 - 744 pages
...name written in golden capitals in the Book of Life 1— Dr. DAVIES. Sister. — The Influence of a She gave me eyes, she gave me ears, And humble cares...fountain of sweet tears, And love, and thought, and joy. — W. WORDSWORTH. Slander. — The Best Defence against It is said that bees and wasps will not sting... | |
 | John Charles Wright - 1882 - 188 pages
...lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily. — BYRON. Ex. 40. — She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; And humble cares,...fountain of sweet tears, And love, and thought, and joy. — WOEDSwOKTH. CHAPTER III. CONTRACTION OF COMPOUND SENTENCES. 1. The sun lighta and warms the earth.... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1882 - 720 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. [1801 REMEMBRANCE OP COLLINS. (Composed upon ilic TJ,ames, near Richmond.) LIDE gently, thus for ever... | |
 | Anna Buckland - 1882 - 562 pages
...(according to the grateful acknowledgments of his own maturest retrospect) it never could have had: — ' She gave me eyes, she gave me ears, And humble cares...fountain of sweet tears, And love and thought and joy.' " And of her influence over his character in developing all the little tender, sweet graces, in which... | |
 | Virginia Woolf - 1938 - 196 pages
...another in the forests of the past, replies: 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.12 Such was, such perhaps still is, the relationship of many brothers and sisters in private, as... | |
 | Shari Benstock - 1988 - 332 pages
...gratefully acknowledges in "The Sparrows Nest," Dorothy had given him her senses and sensibilities: She gave me eyes, she gave me ears: And humble cares,...fountain of sweet tears; And love, and thought, and joy. (17-20) As an adult, he makes clear, she gave him still more: after the "crisis" of his young manhood,... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 1988 - 532 pages
...sensitive feelings, but heart-sorrow over the sins and sorrows of those around Him. His was that ". . . Heart, the fountain of sweet tears, And love, and thought, and joy" that Wordsworth could write about. Thomas Hardy uses the phrase, "That long drip of human tears," and... | |
 | Frederic Stewart Colwell - 1989 - 246 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. (13-20) Dorothy is the young prattler who bears the gift of heart and fountain, so that the whispered... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 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,...delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; 20 And love, and thought, and joy. Written in March While Resting on the Bridge at the Foot of Brother's... | |
 | Kenneth R. Johnston - 1998 - 1018 pages
...but about their Cockermouth one, and about Dorothy's tenderly calming William's passionate nature: She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares,...fountain of sweet tears; And love, and thought, and joy. ("The Sparrow's Nest," 17-20) This was a deeply buried personal allusion that Dorothy knew all about,... | |
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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. 
