 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...betwixt life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength and skill ; A perfect Woman ; nobly plann'd, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still,, and bright With something of an angel li^ht. 15 The REDBREAST and the BUTTERFLY. Art thoa the Bird... | |
 | Anna Garlin Spencer - Families - 1923 - 338 pages
...betwixt life and death; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill; A perfect woman, nobly plann'd, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a spirit still and bright, With something of an angel light." — WORDSWORTH. "Yet in herself she dwelleth not, Although... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1834 - 322 pages
...hiding-place. CHAPTER VIII. The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill, A perfect woman, nobly plann'd To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light. WORDSWORTH. IF our hero had been alone, he might have... | |
 | Mary Richardson (ady.) - 1837 - 986 pages
...other young ladies, but she is much better than an angel, so I will manfully call her a woman ; but — A perfect woman nobly plann'd To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a spirit, still, and bright, With something of an angel light. " You say you can never forget her face then. I am as... | |
 | mrs hemans - 1839 - 408 pages
...entitled. It has made her the friend of man; and our feelings are in harmony with the poet when he speaks of ' A perfect woman, nobly plann'd To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light.' But man has never regarded woman with respect and true... | |
 | Scotland - 1839 - 892 pages
...between life ami death ; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill ; A perfect Woman, nobly plann'd, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit si ill , and bright Wiih something of an angel light." We have always been much affected by the beauty... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...between life and death; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill ; A perfect woman, nobly plann'd, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light. LUCY. THRKE years "she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 360 pages
...between life and death; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill; A perfect woman, nobly plann'd, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light." SONG-WRITING. 345 We have always been much affected by... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1843 - 342 pages
...fell death, can. loose." HORACE. This excellent lady is fully described in the following lines r " A perfect woman, nobly plann'd To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a spirit still and bright, With something of an angel light." WORDS WORTH. There was Anne Killigrew, according to... | |
 | American periodicals - 1872 - 858 pages
...iu the prospect of beinjj the companion of the man she loved, and the mother of his children : — A perfect woman, nobly plann'd To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of angelio light But the storm fell ; and. as a recent critic has remarked,... | |
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A traveller between life and death : The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill ; A perfect woman, nobly plann'd To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel-light. 
