 | 1850 - 642 sider
...quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, not the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no...faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings. From the Christian Reguter. THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY. GOD careth for the smallest seed That 's... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 sider
...British poet, classical scholar. Last Poems, no. 9(1922). 3 Neither evil tongues, Rash judgements, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where...intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, (1770-1850) British poet. "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey," I.... | |
 | John Rieder - 1997 - 284 sider
...beautifully or cogently realized, for instance, than in the blessing the poet pronounces upon his sister: Therefore let the moon Shine on thee in thy solitary...misty mountain winds be free To blow against thee. Wordsworth's blessing of his sister enacts a basic human commitment between them as passionate and... | |
 | Thomas Pfau - 1997 - 478 sider
...poem is replete with statements of a humanistic faith. Yet even these affirmations — for example, "Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold/ Is full of blessings" (ll. 133-34) or "Therefore am I still /A lover of the meadows and the woods" (ll. 103-4) — sound... | |
 | Eric L. Haralson, John Hollander - 1998 - 598 sider
...bear the whips and scorns of time") in "Tintern Abbey" that neither evil tongues, Rash judgements, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where...kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life - and while "Tintern Abbey" resounds all through Bryant's work, neither Bryant nor Wordsworth would... | |
 | David Bromwich - 2000 - 204 sider
...self-portrait that crept into the final paragraph of "Tintern Abbey" ("neither evil tongues, / Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, / Nor greetings where no kindness is. . . ."): He was one who own'd No common soul. In youth, by genius nurs'd, And big with lofty views,... | |
 | Roy Bedichek, Jane Gracy Bedichek - 1998 - 494 sider
...boredom with life and general cussedness. Therefore, let the moon shine on thee in thy solitary walks and let the misty mountain winds be free to blow against thee, as my favorite poet so eloquently advises. There are birds in the snowy wastes and be sure to look... | |
 | Nancy Armstrong - 2002 - 354 sider
...impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings...intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us ... With these lines Wordsworth is waging an argument with his more popular contemporary. Gilpin had... | |
 | J. Douglas Kneale - 1999 - 250 sider
...least to the closing lines of "Tintern Abbey," where Wordsworth again turns to a specific auditor: "[L]et the moon / Shine on thee in thy solitary walk; / And let the misty mountain-winds be free / To blow against thee" (134-7). The turning aside is structurally similar,... | |
 | Joanne Collie, Alex Martin - 2000 - 102 sider
...quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgements, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where...Shine on thee in thy solitary walk; And let the misty mountain-winds be free To blow against thee ... William Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey ( l 798) ENVIRONMENTAL... | |
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tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor... 
