Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blow, and waters roll, Strength to the brave, and power, and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing... The Friend: A Series of Essays - Page 55by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 448 pagesFull view - About this book
| English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...bright and fair, A span of waters ; yet what power is there ! What mightiness for evil and for good ! Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and...the Soul Only the Nations shall be great and free. 190 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. THOUGHT OF A BRITON ON THE SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND. Two Voices are there... | |
| Thomas Stephen - Constitutional history - 1835 - 810 pages
...separated us from our then most formidable neighbour, Napoleon Buonaparte : he said, ' Even so does God protect us, if we be Virtuous and wise ! Winds...the soul Only, the nations shall be great and free.' With all the ports of the continent in his possession, and all its navies at liis command, that narrow... | |
| Thomas Stephen - Constitutional history - 1835 - 806 pages
...separated us from our then moat formidable neighbour, Napoleon Buonaparte : he said, ' Even so does God protect us, if we be Virtuous and wise ! Winds...the brave, and power, and Deity ; Yet in themselves hre nothing! One decree Spake laws to them, and said, that by the soul Only, the nations shall be great... | |
| Robert Southey - Great Britain - 1835 - 376 pages
...formidable neighbour (for it was while Buonaparte was in the plenitude of his power), he said — " Even so doth God protect us, if we be Virtuous and wise I Winds blow, and waters roll, Strength to the brave, and Power, and Deity ; Yet in themselves are... | |
| Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - American periodicals - 1839 - 540 pages
...bright and fair, A span of waters ; yet what power is there ! What mightiness for evil and for good ! Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and...the soul Only the Nations shall be great and free." Wordsworth's perfect self-possession is finely shown in his mode of treating the career of Buonaparte,... | |
| 1839 - 538 pages
...fair, A span of waters ; yet what power is there ! What mightiness for evil and for good ! Even BO doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds...the soul Only the Nations shall be great and free." Wordsworth's perfect self-possession is finely shown in his mode of treating the career of Buonaparte,... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1840 - 694 pages
...reverence of the prophets and heroes that have been, by all our faith in the soul, sursum corda, " Winds blow and waters roll Strength to the brave,...the soul Only the nations shall be great and free." *•* We have received, with the above article, a large cargo of Americtn literature. Pleasant such... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...Civilization rested ! Even fa doth God protect as, if we be Virtuous and Wisr. Winds blow and Water* a hollow voice. Oh ! what if all betray me ? what...thou t I swore, and with on inward thought that seera (Arm. and said that by the Soul Only the Nations shall be (real and free : WORDSWORTH. 392 ESSAY X.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...enemies became friends, so do disasters of all kinds, as sickness, offence, poverty, prove benefactors. ' Winds blow and waters roll Strength to the brave,...and power and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing.' The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...waters ; yet what power is there ! What mightiness for evil and for good l Even so doth God proteet us if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blow, and waters...the soul Only, the Nations shall be great and free. XIL THOUGHT OP A BRITON ON THE SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND. Two Voices are there ; one is of the sea,... | |
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