 Is lightened: — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, — Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While...  Poems of patriotism, history and legend - Page 24791912Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world Is lighten'd : — that serene and blessed mood. In which the affections...become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things. s If this Be but a... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1822 - 430 pages
...presume to read without also thinking. They are tyuv&VTtt ffwerow ee J« TO KM epwvf'uv %itT%ei. " Nor less, I trust, To them I may have owed another...life of things. If this Be but a vain belief, yet, ohl how oft, In darkness, and amid the many shapes Of joyless daylight; when the fretful stir Unprofitable,... | |
 | Charles Knight - English fiction - 1823 - 548 pages
...feelings, bis bow or his badinage ? For his fashionable costume or his foreign accent would I exchange ' that serene and blessed mood In which the affections...become a living soul ; While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things ' " A few laughed,... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...no trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, iinremcmbcrcd acts Of kindness and of love. Nor less, I trust, To...yet, oh ! how oft. In darkness, and amid the many shape* Of joyless day-light, when the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, Have hung... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, Mis little, nameless, unremembercd acts Of kindness and of love. Nor less, I trust, To...things. If this Be but a vain belief, yet, oh! how oft, !n darkness, and amid the many shapes Of joyless daylight ; when the fretful stir Unprofitable, and... | |
 | Robert Smith - Society of Friends - 1829 - 432 pages
...mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world Is lighten'd:—That serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently...become a living soul: While with an eye made .quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things. Though absent long,... | |
 | John Campbell Colquhoun - Animal magnetism - 1836 - 454 pages
...and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world Is lighten'd : that serene and blessed state In which the affections gently lead us on, — Until,...BECOME A LIVING SOUL : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, WE SEE INTO THE LIFE OF THINGS."* It cannot fail,... | |
 | 1838 - 876 pages
...mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lighten'd: — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections...become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power 302 Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We sea inio the life of Ihmgs. "If this Be but... | |
 | Chauncy Hare Townshend - Animal magnetism - 1840 - 604 pages
...of our pulses, until we pass into that state of mind so beautifully described by Wordsworth, — " That serene and blessed mood In which the affections...become a living soul : While, with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things." * Milligan's Magendie.... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - American literature - 1841 - 988 pages
...luxuriates with indifferent things, Wasting its kindliness on stocks and stones, And on the vacant air ;" -that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections...become a living soul. While, with an eye made quiet by the powej Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things-" This calm and holy... | |
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