Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace: Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads: Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And... Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Página 308por John Wilson - 1842Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Life-lights - 1864 - 336 páginas
...chance desires : My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose which ever is the same. Stern lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; And fragrance... | |
| 1901 - 834 páginas
...are unprofitable; the other, in which we who look on cannot refrain from recalling the ode : — " Yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace, Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face." Let us note another marked characteristic in the discussion... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1865 - 318 páginas
...chance-desires : My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and... | |
| Iowa State Bar Association - 1896 - 1030 páginas
...of duty goes into the mighty work which is ever ours. How applicable here are the words of the poet: "Stern Lawgiver! Yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know I anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face; Flowers laugh before the on their beds, And fragrance... | |
| James Chandler - 1984 - 338 páginas
...invariable conformity to moral law just as the activity of flowers and stars conforms to natural law: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and... | |
| Louis Jacobs - 1987 - 166 páginas
...not an unpleasant burden. This custom reminds one of William Wordsworth's lines in his "Ode to Duty': Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance... | |
| 1875 - 398 páginas
...from duty fulfilled. In his " Ode to Duty " he brings all under her stem but benignant power : — " Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and... | |
| David P. Haney - 2010 - 289 páginas
...image, "wear[ ing]," and thus expressing his grace the way a smile represents a person's disposition: Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face. (49-52, in Poems, in Two Volumes 107) The following... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 páginas
...wise.] Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear 50 The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh...on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and... | |
| Martha Woodmansee, Peter Jaszi - 1994 - 482 páginas
...intrinsic undecidable causality of moral speech. At issue is the following stanza of the Ode to Duty : Stern lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds; And Fragrance... | |
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