| John Dennis - 1876 - 466 sider
...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 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." ' I The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 294 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. DOVER HOTEL. William Wordsworth. DON JUAN now saw Albion's earliest beauties, Thy cliffs, dear Dover,... | |
| Sir Henry Taylor - 1878 - 378 sider
...subordinate and instrumental, and still insists upon the higher agency as the vital protection : — " Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and...the soul Only, the nations shall be great and free." The same strain of sentiment will be found to recur repeatedly in the sonnets which relate to the events... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1879 - 362 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. VI.— THOUGHT OF A BRITON ON THE SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND. Two Voices are there ; one is of the... | |
| William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1879 - 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...the Soul Only, the Nations shall be great and free. VI.— THOUGHT or A BRITON ON THE SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND. Two Voices are there ; one is of the... | |
| William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1880 - 330 sider
...bright and fair, A span of waters ; yet what power is there 1 What mightiness for evil and for good 1 Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and...the soul Only the nations shall be great and free ! THE SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND. Two voices are there ; one is of the sea, One of the mountains ;... | |
| 1883 - 692 sider
...teaches men to regard the latter as a means, not an end, and to learn the true rule, and to practice it, that "By the soul Only the nations shall be great and free." Arnold puts into the mouth o'f culture the following diatribe concerning the materialistic conception... | |
| 1908 - 856 sider
...armies, learning, wealth, even "moral prudence" — nothing is of value except this national soul. Winds blow and waters roll, Strength to the brave,...the soul Only, the Nations shall be great and free. He sums it all up in the last sonnet but one of the series: — The power of Armies is a visible thing,... | |
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