| Virginia Hanson, Rosemarie Stewart, Shirley J. Nicholson, S. Nicholson - 2001 - 316 sider
...disasters of all kinds, as sickness, offence, poverty, prove benefactors: — Winds blow and water 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... | |
| Anne Ferry - 2001 - 318 sider
...almost into frightful neighborhood," the poet recognized in the "barrier" of "calm" sea a promise that "Even so doth God protect us if we be/ Virtuous and wise." In the companion sonnet — Keats blasted it with the rhyme "viler Wordsworth's sonnet /On Dover: Dover!... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 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... | |
| Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 555 sider
...antecedent of the pronoun emphasized by Wordsworth, "them," occurs in the lines (10-12) cited by Emerson: Winds blow, and waters roll, Strength to the brave,...and Power, and Deity, Yet in themselves are nothing! (E&L 297) Though Wordsworth's point in the sonnet is less epistemological than moral and political,... | |
| Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 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... | |
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