The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers. The Excursion: A Poem - Sida 183efter William Wordsworth - 1853 - 374 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| 1850 - 682 sidor
...have your reward, — the highest reward which a loving heart seeks, — to be loved in return. " Tho primal duties shine aloft, like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and hless, Are scattered at the feet of man like dowers,— The generous inclination, the first rule, Kind... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1851 - 750 sidor
...The excellence of moral qualities From common understanding ; leaving truth And virtue, difficult, abstruse, and dark; Hard to be won, and only by a...The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scatttered at the feet of Man — like flowers. The generous inclination, the just rule, Kind wishes,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 sidor
...should'hide The excellence of moral qualities From common understanding; leaving truth And virtue, difficult, abstruse, and dark ; Hard to be won, and only by a...duties shine aloft — like stars; The charities that eoothe, and heal, and bless, Arc scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers. The generous inclination,... | |
| John Aikin - 1852 - 792 sidor
...hide The excellence of moral qualities From common understanding ; leaving truth And virtue difficult, abstruse, and dark ; Hard to be won, and only by a...The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scatter'd at the feet of man, like flowers; The generous inclination, the just rule, Kind wishes, and... | |
| Margaret Fuller - 1852 - 364 sidor
...so was she taught the secrets of the universe from Wordsworth's poems. He pointed out to her how " The primal duties shine aloft like stars, The charities...Are scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers." He read her lectures about the daisy, the robin red-breast, and the waterfall. He taught her to study... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1852 - 478 sidor
...Words worth are Toeautiful, (only that the charities themselves are primal duties also,) where he says, The primal duties shine aloft like stars ; The charities...bless, Are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers. .All nature is possessor of their beauty. Where are they not, in 'whatsoever climate, in whatsoever... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 sidor
...endless : The world is wide, these things are small, They may be nothing, but they are all. MILNES. The primal duties shine aloft like stars, The charities that soothe and heat and bless, Lie scatter'd at the feet of men like flowers. WORDSWOBTH. TIME. Time hath laid his... | |
| Sons of New Hampshire - 1854 - 254 sidor
...good city stands preeminent in these labors of love. Here the language of poetry becomes history — " The primal duties shine aloft like stars ; The charities...bless, Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers." Eeligion and learning, churches and colleges, dr.aw upon the funds of this prosperous city, and their... | |
| J. Macgowan - 1854 - 382 sidor
...whom she was a great favourite. CHAPTER XIII. DUTY AND PLEASURE. " THE primal duties shine aloft as stars, The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers." WORDSWORTJI. "FLORENCE," said Eliza one day about a year after Gertrude's return from England, " do... | |
| Charles Williams - 1854 - 662 sidor
...— " The primal duties shine aloft like stars," the beautiful words that follow are no less so : " The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers." There is no sphere so lowly, as there is none too lofty, to forbid the culture and the exercise of... | |
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