 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pages
...render'd more compassionate; Is placable because occasions rise So often that demand such sacrifice ; More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure, As tempted more ; more able to endure, As more expos'd to suffering and distress ; Thence, also, more alive to tenderness. 32 Tis he whose law is... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...rendered more compassionate ; Is placable — because occasions rise So often that demand such sacrifice ; More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure, As...distress ; Thence, also, more alive to tenderness. Tis he whose law is reason; who depends Upon that law as on the best of friends ; Whence, in a state... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...rendered more compassionate ; Is placable — because occasions rise So often that demand such sacrifice ; More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure, As...distress ; Thence, also, more alive to tenderness. Tis he whose law is reason; who depends. Upon that law as on the best of friends ; Whence, in a state... | |
 | Noah Worcester, Henry Ware - 1822 - 506 pages
...render'd more compassionate ! Is placable, because occasions rise So often that demand such sacrifice ; More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure, As...and distress ; Thence also more alive to tenderness. 'Tis he whose law is reason ; who depends Upon that law, as on the best of friends ; Whence, in a state... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1822 - 486 pages
...that demand such sacrifice ; More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure, As tempted more ; nHfre able to endure, As more exposed to suffering and distress; Thence also more alive to tenderness 'Tis he whose law is reason; who depends Upon that law, as on the best of friends ; Whence, in a state... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...rendered more compassionate ; Is placable — because occasions rise So often that demand such sacrifice ; More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure, As...distress ; Thence, also, more alive to tenderness. — Tis he whose law is reason ; who depends Upon that law as on the best of friends ; Whence, in a... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...render'd more compassionate ; Is placable — because occasions rise So often that demand such sacrifice ; More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure, As...distress ; Thence, also, more alive to tenderness ; — 'Tis he whose law is reason; who depends Upon that law as on the best of friends; Whence, in... | |
 | Edward Tagart - 1832 - 352 pages
...wish to be ? —'Tis he whose law is reason ; who depends Upon that law as on the best of friends ; Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by open...means ; and there will stand On honourable terms, And therefore does not stoop, nor lie in wait For wealth or honours, or for worldly state ; — —A... | |
 | 1840 - 824 pages
...render'd more compassionate; Are placable because occasions rise So often that demand such sacrifice. More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure As...and distress, Thence also more alive to tenderness.' This exquisite picture cannot be a portraiture of all military men, it is true ; nor do we pretend... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 536 pages
...rendered more compassionate ; Are placable because occasions rise So often that demand such sacrifice. More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure As...more exposed to suffering and distress, Thence also mote alive to tenderness." This exquisito picture cannot be a portraiture of all military men, it is... | |
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Tis he whose law is reason; who depends Upon that law as on the best of friends; Whence, in a state where men are tempted still To evil for a guard against worse ill... 
