| English literature - 1822 - 696 pages
...Where light and shade repose, where music dwells Lingering — and wand'ring on as loth to die, Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality." 4 We also point out the Sonnets on ' Cranmer,' the second *' on the Dissolution of the Monasteries/... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1827 - 482 pages
...Where light and shade repose, where music dwells Lingering — and wandering on as loth to die ; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality. XXXIII. THE SAME* WHAT awful perspective ! while from our sight With gradual stealth the lateral windows... | |
| William Wordsworth - Sonnets, English - 1899 - 308 pages
...Where light and shade repose, where music dwells Lingering — and wandering on as loth to die ; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality. WHAT awful perspective ! while from our sight The Same With gradual stealth the lateral windows hide... | |
| Robert Southey - Christian life - 1829 - 462 pages
...opportunity have been wanting to bring it to effect.* There are feelings and purposes as well as " thoughts, whose very sweetness yieldeth proof , That they were born for immortality." SIR THOMAS MORE. Those great legislative measures whereby the character of a nation is changed and... | |
| Robert Southey - Christian life - 1829 - 452 pages
...opportunity have been wanting to bring it to effect.* There are feelings and purposes as well as " thoughts, whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality." SIR THOMAS MORE. Those great legislative measures whereby the character of a nation is changed and... | |
| Robert Southey - Christian life - 1829 - 456 pages
...opportunity have been wanting to bring it to effect.* There are feelings and purposes as well as " thoughts, whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality." SIR THOMAS MORE. Those great legislative measures whereby the character of a nation is changed and... | |
| 1840 - 548 pages
...Where light and shade repose, where music dwells Lingering — and wandering on as loth to die ; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality." WORDSWORTH. Hark ! in a remote aisle awakes a melodious anthem ; the tide of song rolls nearer and... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1837 - 868 pages
...from heaven, and peopled it with divine fancies and " Thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth prooi That they were born for immortality." Although he numbered among his associates free thinkers and skeptics, he had a great dislike to any profane handling of sacred subjects, and... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1838 - 478 pages
...live beyond them. Within the contracted sphere of his habits and desires he detected the subtilest essences of Christian kindliness, shed over it a light...he numbered among his associates freethinkers and skeptics, he had a great dislike to any profane handling of sacred subjects, and always discouraged... | |
| Henry Alford - Atonement - 1842 - 220 pages
...continued progress to corruption and death which he sees around him? There are again, in these our hearts, thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality : but who shall say that these could make their feeble testimony of comfort and peace heard, amidst... | |
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