 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 - Page 308by John Wilson - 1842Full view - About this book
 | 1808 - 532 pages
...Godhead's mod benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing fo fair As is the fmile upon thy face ; Flowers Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou doll preferve the ftars from wrong ; And the moft ancient heavens through thee are frelh and... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pages
...precepts over dignified," Denial and restraint I prize No farther than they breed a second Will more wise. 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 strong.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...precepts over dignified," Denial and restraint I prize No farther than they breed a second Will more wise. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair v As is the smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds; And Fragrance in thy footing... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...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 any thing so fair t \ \ i As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; V And Fragrance in... | |
 | Mrs. Hoare (Louisa Gurney) - Child rearing - 1819 - 206 pages
...themselves, that " her ways are ways of pleasantness;" and that " all her paths are peace :" — " Nor know we any thing so fair, As is the smile upon her face*." ,, Care must be taken not to press too closely upon children such non-essential points... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - English fiction - 1822 - 310 pages
...MERCHANT'S SON. " My gentler rtst is on a thought; Conscious of doing what I ought." Jlndrea Marvell. " Stern Law-giver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flow'rs laugh before thee on their beds. And fragrance in thy footing treads." Wordsworth's Ode to... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - English fiction - 1822 - 308 pages
...MERCHANT'S SON. " My gentler rest is on a thought, Conscious of doing what I ought." Andrew Marvell. " Stern Law-giver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flow'rs laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads." Wordsworth's Ode to... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1822 - 296 pages
...a thought, Conscious of doing what I ought." Andrew Marvell. " Stern Law-giver ! yet thou dostwear The Godhead's most benignant grace, Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flow'rs laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads." Wordsworth's Ode to... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet tliou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor...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... | |
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