| Howard Payson Arnold - 1868 - 514 sider
...spur them on to greater and more worthy achievements ; and thus it happens, as it did to him, that " Winds blow and waters roll Strength to the brave, and power, and deity." Much has been said in regard to the original model of the light-house, which its designer states was... | |
| Edward Thring - 1868 - 392 sider
...head be now Pillowed in some deep dungeon's earless den. p. 182. Conditional Sentences. No. 3. 1 1 . Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise. p. 185. No. 1. 12. What sorrow would it be That* mountain floods should thunder as before, And ocean... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1870 - 368 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...Strength to the brave, and Power, and Deity ; Yet hi themselves are nothing ! One decree Spake laws to them, and said that by the soul Only, the Nations... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1870 - 390 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...roll, Strength to the brave, and Power, and Deity; Tet in themselves are nothing! One decree Spake laws to them, and said that by the soul Only, the Nations... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 sider
...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... | |
| John Campbell Shairp - 1870 - 174 sider
...be good or not. We worship railroads, steam, coal, as if these made a nation's greatness, forgetting that — ' by the soul Only the nations shall be great and free.' We worship wealth, as men have done in all ages, in spite of the voices of all the wise, only perhaps... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1871 - 630 sider
...bright and fair, A span of waters ; yet what power is ihcrc ! What mightiness for evil and for good ! Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blow, and waters run, Strength to the brave, and Power, and Deity ; Yet in themselves are nothing ! One decree , Spake... | |
| John Campbell Shairp - 1871 - 210 sider
...be good or not. We worship railroads, steam, coal, as if these made a nation's greatness, forgetting that — " by the soul Only the nations shall be great and free." • We worship wealth, as men have done in all ages, in spite of the voices of all the wise, only perhaps... | |
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 sider
...and fair, A span of waters ; yet what power is there ! What mightiness for evil and for good I liven so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise....the soul Only the nations shall be great and free ! THOUGHT OF A BRITON ON THE SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND. Two voices are there ; one is of the sea,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1872 - 826 sider
...invasion, not to place too much reliance on the " barrier flood" which separated them from France : . . . . Winds blow and waters roll Strength to the brave,...the soul Only, the nations shall be great and free. But if for a moment Wordsworth fears for England and feels for her " as a lover or a child," he acknowledges... | |
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