 | 1824 - 446 pages
...Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill ; A perfect Woman, nobly plann'd, To warn, to comfdrt, to command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light." I produce then my third proof from " Ruth :" — " The youth of green savannahs spake, And... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1824 - 446 pages
...Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill ; A perfect Woman, nobly plann'd, To warn, to comfort, to command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light." I produce then my third proof from " Ruth :" — " The youth of green savannahs spake, And... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill, A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet...Spirit still, and bright 'With something of an angel light. X. 0 NIGHTINGALE ! thou surely art A Creature of a fiery heart : — These notes of thine —... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...strength, and skill, A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; WORDSWORTH. And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light. TO A HIGHLAND GIRL. (AT INVER8NEYDE, UPON LOCH LOMOND.) SWEET Highland Girl, a very shower Of... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...Endurance, foresight, strength and skill; A perfect Woman; nolily plann'd, To warn, to comfort, anil angel-light. NATURE'S FAVOURITE. iiiiu) years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said : A lovelier... | |
 | 1832 - 598 pages
...the comparison, and to give our meaning its proper music, ' A perfect woman, nobly planned To warm, to comfort, and command ; And yet a spirit still — and bright With something of an angel light.' We had just finished our quotation, when a friend entered, whose opinions are worth seeking,... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1833 - 832 pages
...The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength and skill. A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet,...spirit, still and bright, With something of an angel light. Such is the portrait which is amplified and placed in a hundred new lights in the PURITAN'S... | |
 | Richard Treffry - 1833 - 386 pages
...a perfect harmony. He was " A creature, not too bright or good For human nature's daily food : — And yet a spirit still, and bright, With something of an angel light." — There was connected with him, none of tha: painful feeling of incongruity, which is too... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1834 - 322 pages
...firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill, A perfect woman, nobly plann'd To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light. WORDSWORTH. IF our hero had been alone, he might have treated these invitations as ordinary... | |
 | Ellen Pickering - 1834 - 256 pages
...did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet. A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warm, to comfort, to command ; And yet a spirit still — and bright With something of an angel light. WORDSWORTH.Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it... | |
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A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel 13 light. XV.— I WANDERED LONELY. 1804. I WANDERED lonely as a cloud... 
