 | 1850 - 806 pages
...shepherd's quiet and gentle spirit, and preferred to the bustle and the laurels of the battlefield — ' The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.' Surely, the hero and his poet both must be reckoned by the wise to have ' chosen the better part.'... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pages
...was framed, Who, long compell'd in humble walks to go, Was softened into feeling, sooth'd, and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie, His...in lofty place The wisdom which adversity had bred. Glad were the Vales, and every cottage hearth ; The Shepherd Lord was honour'd more and more : And,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...was framed. Who, long compell'd in humble walks to go, Was softened into feeling, sooth'd, and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie, His...in lofty place The wisdom which adversity had bred. Glad were the Vales, and every cottage hearth ; The Shepherd Lord was honour'd more and more : And,... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1807 - 904 pages
...was framed, Who, long compell'd in humble walks to go, Was soften'd into feeling, sooth'd, and tamed. In him the savage virtue of the race, Revenge, and...in lofty place The wisdom which adversity had bred. TOL. vi. D i> Glad Glad were the vales, and every cottage hearth ; The shepherd Lord was honour'd more... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1835 - 606 pages
...are born, and to know himself better than he could have done in his hereditary sphere." — p. 250. 4 Love had he found in huts, where poor men lie, , ,...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. 1 In him the savage virtue of the Race — Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead ; Nor did... | |
 | Thomas N. Brown - 1859 - 360 pages
...certain it is, that with the most obdurate inflexibility did he decline their every solicitation. " Love had he found in huts where poor men lie, His...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills ;" and with that love and these teachers he seemed unambitious to extend the circle of his acquaintanceship,... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 354 pages
...was framed, Who, long compell'd in humble walks to go, Was soften'd into feeling, sooth'd, and tamed. In him the savage virtue of the race, Revenge, and...in lofty place The wisdom which adversity had bred. Glad were the vales, and every cottage hearth; The shepherd Lord was honour'd more and more : And ages... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...was framed, Who, long compelled in humble walks to go, Was softened into feeling, soothed, and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie, His...in lofty place The wisdom which adversity had bred. VOL. n. F Glad were the Vales, and every cottage hearth ; The Shepherd Lord was honoured more and more... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...was framed, Who, long compelled in humble walks to go, Was softened into feeling, soothed, and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie, His...in lofty place The wisdom which adversity had bred. VOL. n. F Glad were the Vales, and every cottage hearth ; The Shepherd Lord was honoured more and more... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 326 pages
...was framed, Who, long compelled in humble walks to go Was softened into feeling-, soothed, and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor men lie : His...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills." The words themselves in the foregoing extracts, are, no doubt, sufficiently common for the greater... | |
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Love had he found in huts where poor men lie ; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. 
