| 1916 - 674 sider
...cried, as he looked on the narrow waters that lie between England and France : Vol. 22C.--.Vo. 448. K ' Winds blow, and waters roll, Strength to the brave,...the soul Only, the Nations shall be great and free.' These were not mere phrases in Wordsworth's mouth. He meant every syllable of them. It was the very... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 578 sider
...insists upon the higher agency as the vital protection : — ' Even so doth God protect us if we he Virtuous and wise. Winds blow and waters roll, Strength...One decree Spake laws to them, and said that by the aoul Only, the nations shall be great and free.' — p. 129. The same strain of sentiment will be found... | |
| John Rylands Library - 1917 - 556 sider
...detailed mastery of a statesman ; but the informing passion of the whole is his own lofty conviction that, " by the soul only the Nations shall be great and free," and that the soul is nowhere more greatly manifested than in the heroic crises of national existence.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 sider
...enemies became friends, so disasters of all kinds, as sickness, offence, poverty, prove benefactors: — "Winds blow and waters roll Strength to the brave,...and power and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing." The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 sider
...enemies became friends, so disasters of all kinds, as sickness, offence, poverty, prove benefactors: — "Winds blow and waters roll Strength to the brave,...and power and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing." The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not... | |
| Stuart Curran - 1990 - 280 sider
...cultural perspective and inner assurance, through incorporating Milton's voice and vision. If it is true that "by the Soul / Only the Nations shall be great and free" (11.13-14), Wordsworth discovers his country's soul not in venal speculators who look to iciiomentary... | |
| J. W. Schulte Nordholt - 1991 - 532 sider
...sent to Wilson was, the recipient quipped, "a little moth-eaten when it got here but quite legible."17 Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise ... by the Soul Only the nations shall be great and free. — William Wordsworth, September 1802 N... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 sider
...bright and fair, A span of waters; yet what power is there! What mightiness for evil and for good! Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and...the soul Only, the Nations shall be great and free. London, 1802 Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen... | |
| Alexander Crummell - 1995 - 298 sider
...statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people." Dueteronomy 4:6. 19. "One decree / Spake laws to them, and said that by...soul / Only, the Nations shall be great and free." William Wordsworth, "September, 1802. Near Dover," ll. 12-14. 20. "I may not hope from outward forms... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 552 sider
...the base of the misled Ararat, on which the ark of the hope of Europe and of civilization rested ' Even so doth God protect us, if we be Virtuous and...and power and deity : Yet in themselves are nothing 1 One decree Spake laws to them, and said that by the soul Only the nations shall be great and free... | |
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