 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 416 sidor
...soul. " Then towards the cottage I returned ; and traced Fondly, though with an interest more mild, That secret spirit of humanity Which, 'mid the calm...survived. The old Man, noting this, resumed, and said, 1 My Friend ! enough to sorrow you have given, The purposes of wisdom ask no more : She sleeps in the... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 538 sidor
...soul. " Then towards the cottage I returned ; and traced Fondly, though with an intereit more mild, That secret spirit of humanity Which, 'mid the calm...'mid her plants, and weeds, and flowers, And silent overyrowings, still survived. The old Man, noting this, resumed, and said, 'My Friend ! enough to sorrow... | |
 | 1884 - 938 sidor
...Book. After hearing it, Wordsworth is silent with sorrow, till the Wanderer thus addresses him : ' My friend ! enough to sorrow you have given, The purposes of wisdom ask no more', He wise or cheerful, and no longer read The forms of things with an unworthy eye.' In a later edition... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1885 - 344 sidor
...of grief. At length towards the cottage I returned Fondly, — and traced, with interest more mild, That secret spirit of humanity Which, 'mid the calm,...you have given ; The purposes of wisdom ask no more : Be wise and cheerful ; and no longer read The forms of things with an unworthy eye. She sleeps in... | |
 | Roden Noel - 1886 - 378 sidor
...infuse in correction of a too hopeless^ despondency, for the poet traces " with interest more mild " — "That secret spirit of humanity Which 'mid the calm...flowers And silent overgrowings, still survived." Having incidentally spoken much of Wordsworth in my first essay and elsewhere, I shall not say more... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - 1886 - 526 sidor
...last century, at Racedown or Alfoxden. Through all the early editions of his poems it stood thus— ' The old man, noting this, resumed, and said, "My friend! enough to sorrow yon have given, The purposes of wisdom ask no more ; Be wise and cheerful, and no longer read The forms... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 1016 sidor
...grief. Then towards the cottage 1 returned ; and traced Fondly, though with an interest more mild. That secret spirit of humanity Which, 'mid the calm...said, ' ' My Friend ! enough to sorrow you have given, red, The purposes of wisdom ask no more : Nor more would she have craved as due to One Who, in her... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 1152 sidor
...grief. Then towards the cottage I returned ; and traced Fondly, though with an interest more mild, That secret spirit of humanity Which, 'mid the calm...and said, ' ' My Friend ! enough to sorrow you have by, The purposes of wisdom ask no more : Nor more would she have craved as due to One Who, in her worst... | |
 | Edmond Henri Adolphe Scherer - 1891 - 336 sidor
...is expressed : At length towards the cottage I returned Fondly, and traced with interest more mild That secret spirit of humanity Which, 'mid the calm...flowers, And silent overgrowings still survived. The Excursion. Never has there been expressed as a whole, with such puissant simplicity, and with plasticity... | |
 | Edmond Henri Adolphe Scherer - 1891 - 364 sidor
...expressed : — At length towards the cottage I returned Fondly, and traced with interest more mild That secret spirit of humanity Which, 'mid the calm...nature, 'mid her plants, and weeds, and flowers, And sEent overgrowings still survived. The Excursion. Never has there been expressed as a whole, with such... | |
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That secret spirit of humanity Which, mid the calm oblivious tendencies Of nature, mid her plants, and weeds, and flowers, And silent overgrowings, still survived. 
