 | 1916 - 880 pages
...true character. Like Wordsworth's "Happy Warrior," when called to face the stern realities of life, he is "Happy as a lover and attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired." The sun shines forth in all his strength and splendor and beneficence. The king "redeems the time,"... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 778 pages
...common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence — a peculiar grace : But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment, to...attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired ; And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw. Or if... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to...has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, s в 2 372 POEMS OF SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION. T Is happy as a Lover ; and attired With sudden brightness,... | |
 | 1858 - 788 pages
...Great issues, good or bad, fir human-kind, Is happy as a lover, and attired With sudden brightness hkea man inspired. 'Tis, finally, the man, who, lifted...nation's eye, Or, left unthought of in obscurity. Flays in the many games of life that one Where what he most doth value must be won. Who, if he rise... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has join'd Great issues, good or bad, for human Hind, Is happy as a lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw; Or if... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 pages
...common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven lias joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, в в 2 POEMS OF SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION. Is... | |
 | 1846 - 628 pages
...common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to...attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired ; And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw ; Or if... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if he be called upon to face , Some awful moment to...attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw ; Or,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...peculiar grace; But who, if he be cull'd upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has join'd Great issues, good or bad, for human kind, Is happy...attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw; Or if... | |
 | John Cotton Smith - 1847 - 348 pages
...common strife, Or Tt^ild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment, to...attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw : Or... | |
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Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind,... 
