 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...aparti Thou hadst a voice, whose sound was like the Bern; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free; Bo didst thou travel on life's common way, , In cheerful godliness: and yet thy heart Tlie lowliest duties on herself did lay. WORDS WORTH. FAR above all the poets of his own age,... | |
 | John Halperin - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 352 pages
...in the concluding lines he brings us this compendious example of manners, virtue, freedom and power: So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. The heart that goes life's common way in cheerful godliness... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 226 pages
...again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as...life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. [APA] WOTTON, SIR HENRY (1568-1639), ambassador under... | |
 | Doris Eveline Faulkner Jones - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 244 pages
...Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warbles his native wood-notes wild." Wordsworth says of Milton : " Thou had'st a voice, whose sound was like the sea, Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free." Tennyson addresses Milton thus : "O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skill'd to sing of Time... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart. (1. 8—9) 42 So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. (1. 12-14) AWP; EnRP; FaBoPV; FaBV; FaPoR; FF; GTBS;... | |
 | J. Edward Chamberlin - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as...life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.7 Sometimes, the purposes to which the form was turned... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as...life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. Written in London, September, 1802 O Friend! I know not... | |
 | Masson - Poetry - 1995 - 228 pages
...again, And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power! Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as...life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Why did I laugh tonight? Why did I... | |
 | Lela Knox Shanks - Medical - 1996 - 224 pages
...via radiation. Oh! rise up, return to us again; And give us the virtue to protest this shame. Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as...life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay. You never visited my town; but, oh, how you affected its... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 212 pages
...is described as Wordsworth sees himself here: Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadsi a voice whose sound was like the sea; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free. . . . The prayer then is to be an influence, and not to be influenced, and the precursor is praised... | |
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Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself... 
