 When I have borne in memory what has tamed Great nations, how ennobling thoughts depart When men change swords for ledgers, and desert The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed I had, my country !— am I to be blamed?  Tait's Edinburgh Magazine - Sida 165redigerad av - 1835Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1869 - 444 sidor
...lowliest duties ori herself did lay. ccxrv WHEN I have borne in memory what has tamed Great nations ; how ennobling thoughts depart When men change swords for...had, my Country ! — am I to be blamed? But when 1 think of thee, and what thou art, Verily, in the bottom of my heart Of those unfilial fears I am... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1869 - 752 sidor
...TO NATIONAL LNT)EPENDENCE AND LIBERTY. WHD I have borne in memory what has tuned Great Nations, how ennobling thoughts depart When men change swords for...and desert The student's bower for gold, some fears imnamfd I had, my Country !—am I to be blamed ! Now, when I think of thee, and what thou art, Verily,... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1870 - 860 sidor
...Wordsworth's love for his country : When I have borne in memory what has tinned Great nations, how ennobling thoughts depart When men change swords for...unnamed I had, my country !— am I to be blamed, Now, when I think of thce, and what thou art. Verily in the bottom of my heart. Of thoee nnnllal fears... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1870 - 390 sidor
...first blood, have titles manifold. xvn. WHEN I have borne in memory what has tamed Great Nations, how ennobling thoughts depart When men change swords for...student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed I had, my Country!—am I to be blamed ? Now, when I think of thee, and what thou art, Verily, in the bottom... | |
 | 1870 - 672 sidor
...standard of our civilization, it becomes us to bear in memory : — " What has tamed Great nations ; how ennobling thoughts depart, When men change swords...ledgers, and desert The student's bower for gold." Yet inevitably, in young countries like this, the whole energies of the community are liable to be... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1871 - 622 sidor
...have titles manifold. XVIL WHEN I have borne in memory what has tamed Great nations, how innobling thoughts depart When men change swords for ledgers,...of thee, and what thou art, Verily, in the bottom of my heart, Of those nnlili.il fears I am ashamed. But dearly must we prize thee ; we who find In... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1871 - 630 sidor
...titles manifold XVII. WH EN I have borne in memory what has tamed Great" •'•-•--• .- -- ... W he desert The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed I had, my Country! — am I to be blamed? Now, when I think of thee, and what thou art, Verily, in the bottom of my heart, Of those unfilial... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 sidor
...Nations, how ennohling thoughts depart When men change swords for ledgers, and desert The stndent's hower for gold, some fears unnamed I had, my Country !— am I to he hlamed ? Now, when I think of thee, and what thou art, Yerily, in the hottom of my heart, Of those... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 sidor
...thoughts When men change swords for ledgers, and desert [unnamed The student's bower for gold, some fears I had. my country ! — am I to be blamed ? But when...of thee, and what thou art, Verily, in the bottom of my heart, Of those unfilial fears I am ashamed. But dearly must we prize thcc ; we who find In thee... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 80 sidor
...of two." 92 honour sinhs, etc.—Compare a similar sentiment in one of Wordsworth's Sonnets :— " Ennobling thoughts depart When men change swords for...ledgers, and desert The student's bower for gold." 108 theatric pride—ie, like the tiers of spectators rising one above another in a theatre. 112 were—ie,... | |
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