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" Why should we thus, with an untoward mind, And in the weakness of humanity, From natural wisdom turn our hearts away; To natural comfort shut our eyes and ears; And, feeding on disquiet, thus disturb The calm of nature with our restless thoughts? "
Blackwood's Lady's Magazine and Gazette of the Fashionable World, Or, St ... - Page 139
1851
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The Excursion, Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem

William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1814 - 476 pages
...multitude of flies Is filling all the air with melody ; Why should a tear be in an Old Man's eye ? Why should we thus, with an untoward mind, And in...disturb The calm of nature with our restless thoughts ?" HE spake with somewhat of a solemn tone : But, when he ended, there was in his face Such easy chearfulness,...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 5

William Wordsworth - 1827 - 452 pages
...multitude of flies Is filling all the air with melody ; Why should a tear be in an Old Man's eye ? Why should we thus, with an untoward mind, And in...disturb The calm of nature with our restless thoughts ?" HE spake with somewhat of a solemn tone: But, when he ended, there was in his face Such easy cheerfulness,...
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The Mourner's Book

Lady, A Lady - Bereavement - 1836 - 338 pages
...ready to bear them company. Ibid. THE TEARS OF THE AGED. " WHY should a tear be in an Old Man's eye ? Why should we thus, with an untoward mind, And in...disturb The calm of nature with our restless thoughts 7" WORDSWORTH. MOURNFUL THOUGHTS FRIENDLY TO VIRTUE. WE have known that there is often found In mournful...
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The Excursion; a Poem

William Wordsworth - 1836 - 398 pages
...multitude of flies Is filling all the air with melody ; Why should a tear be in an old Man's eye ? Why should we thus, with an untoward mind, And in...disturb The calm of nature with our restless thoughts ?" HE spake with somewhat of a solemn tone : But, when he ended, there was in his face Such easy cheerfulness,...
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Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Falconer ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 796 pages
...multitude of flies Is filling all the air with melody ; Why should a tear he in an old man's eye ? ? Monarchs have gazed, and nations bless'd the sight....mountains rise, Eclipse her native shades, her nativ out eyes and ears, And, feeding on disquiet, thus disturh The calm of nature witli our restless thoughts...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Falconer ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 750 pages
...multitude of flies Is filling all the air with melody ; Why should a tear be in an old man's eye ? Why should we thus, with an untoward mind, And in...wisdom turn our hearts away, To natural comfort shut out eyes and cars, And, feeding on disquiet, thus disturb The calm of nature with our restless thoughts...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Falconer ...

John Aikin, John Frost - English poetry - 1838 - 752 pages
...in the weakness of humanity, From natural wisdom turn our hearts away, To natural comfort shut out solitude might wear To th' unenlighten'd swains of pagan Greece. In that fair clime, the lonely her ;•• He spake with somewhat of a solemn tone : But, when he ended, there was in his face Such easy...
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The Excursion: A Poem

William Wordsworth - 1841 - 400 pages
...multitude of flies Is filling all the air with melody ; "Why should a tear be in an old Man's eye ? Why should we thus, with an untoward mind, And in...disturb The calm of nature with our restless thoughts ?" HE spate with somewhat of a solemn tone : But, when he ended, there was in' his face Such easy cheerfulness,...
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Colloquies, desultory and diverse, but chiefly upon poetry and poets. [by C ...

Christopher Legge Lordan - English poetry - 1843 - 224 pages
...sometimes anticipated, through the inspiration of Heaven's prime legate, Hope ! ' Why should we, then, with an untoward mind, And in the weakness of humanity,...disturb The calm of nature with our restless thoughts ?'*" The stroke was on six, I said, when Mary was favored with an injunction to move: whereupon E....
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Colloquies, Desultory, But Chiefly Upon Poetry and Poets: Between an Elder ...

Christopher Legge Lordan - English poetry - 1844 - 296 pages
...prime legate, Hope! " Why," then, " should tears be in the old man's eye ? — " Why should we, then, with an untoward mind, And in the weakness of humanity,...disturb The calm of nature with our restless thoughts?"* The stroke was on six, I said, when Mary was favored with an injunction to move: whereupon E. rejoined,...
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