From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor... Sharpe's London Magazine - Page 1751847Full view - About this book
| Thomas Pfau - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 478 pages
...poem is replete with statements of a humanistic faith. Yet even these affirmations — for example, "Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold/ Is full of blessings" (ll. 133-34) or "Therefore am I still /A lover of the meadows and the woods" (ll. 103-4) — sound... | |
| Carmela Ciuraru - American poetry - 2001 - 276 pages
...sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful...faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings. Therefore let the moon Shine on thee in thy solitary walk; And let the misty mountain winds be free... | |
| Joanne Collie, Alex Martin - Foreign Language Study - 2000 - 102 pages
...sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful...faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings. Therefore let the moon Shine on thee in thy solitary walk; And let the misty mountain-winds be free... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - Literary Collections - 2000 - 682 pages
...in the mournful inset songs of The Sicilian Captive and The Indian Woman's Death Song.] Nought shall prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings. WORDSWORTH2 There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes Can trace it 'midst familiar... | |
| Martin H. Manser - Religion - 2001 - 524 pages
...Logan Pearsal! Smith Nor greeting where no kindness is, nor all / The dreary intercourse of daily life, /Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb / Our cheerful...faith, that all which we behold / Is full of blessings. William Wordsworth Morality, see Right and Wrong Mothers and Motherhood See also Fathers and Fatherhood;... | |
| Leon Waldoff - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 192 pages
...lists — including "evil tongues," "Rash judgments," and "The dreary intercourse of daily life" — "Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb / Our cheerful...faith, that all which we behold / Is full of blessings" (122— 34).31 (An exception to this more public sense of the speaker's use of the first-person plural... | |
| Benjamin Bennett - Feminism and literature - 2001 - 292 pages
...its inconsistencies, may speak in the same breath of "The dreary intercourse of daily life" and of "Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold / Is full of blessings," a selfdiscipline like that of Socrates, which is admired not only by Montaigne and by Goethe, but also,... | |
| Gregory Orr - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 250 pages
...sneers of selfish men. Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life. Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful...faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings. ("Lmes Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey," 11. 123—34) Wordsworth's poems didn't "invent"... | |
| Henry O'Brien - Art - 2002 - 556 pages
...sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful...faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings." — WORDSWORTH. CHAPTER XXIV. THE regal figures, which I promised, as belonging to the Nubian temple,... | |
| Jerome McGann - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 332 pages
...kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life. Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturh Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings. ("Tintern Abbey," 125-134) daughter as Wordsworth had addressed his sister. Canto HI ofChilde Harold... | |
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