 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1812 - 448 pages
...whose hearts * Could hold vain dalliance with the misery Even of the dead ; contented thence to draw i A momentary pleasure, never mark'd By reason, barren...found A power to virtue friendly.— —WORDSWORTH. MSS. IT is gratifying to me to find from my correspondents, that the homeliness of the language and... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Electronic books - 1814 - 447 pages
...with the misery • Even of the dead ; contented thence to draw A momentary pleasure, never marked By reason, barren of all future good. But we have...always might be found, A power to virtue friendly ; were't not so, I am a Dreamer among men, indeed An idle Dreamer ! Tis a common Tale, An ordinary... | |
 | 1817
...yet probably much might be said in favour of this plan. A poet of the highest eminence has observed, that " there is often found In mournful thoughts,...always might be found, A power to virtue friendly." But we need say nothing more o» a subject which is, indeed, self-evident ; and shall only add, that... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1818 - 375 pages
...nibilominus feriamur: at reclines quidem, at otiosas, at de his el illis inter se libere colloquentes. ESSAY I. It were a wantonness and would demand Severe...might be found A power to virtue friendly. WORDSWORTH. MSS. I know not how I can better commence my second LANDING PLACE, as joining on to the section of... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1819
...But the poet is not a creature all of joyous fancies ; he knows, as Wordsworth has finely told us, ^ that there is often found In mournful thoughts, and...always might be found, ' . A power to virtue friendly." The stream of his heart is not always like those of spring, huddling and rapid, and telling out gladness,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827
...return'd, And begg'd of the Old Man that, for my sake, He would resume his story. — He replied, " It were a wantonness, and would demand Severe reproof,...good. But we have known that there is often found c 3 In mournful thoughts, and always might be found, A power to virtue friendly; were't not so, I am... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827
...never mark'd By reason, barren of all future good. But we have known that there is often found c 3 In mournful thoughts, and always might be found, A power to virtue friendly ; were 't not so, I am a Dreamer among men, indeed An idle Dreamer ! 'Tis a common Tale, An ordinary... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 340 pages
...contented thence to draw A momentary pleasure, never mark'd Hy reason, barren of all future good, (tut we have known that there is often found In mournful...always might be found, A power to virtue friendly ; were 't not so, [ I am a Dreamer among men, indeed i An idle Dreamer ! *T is a common Tale, ' An... | |
 | Richard Howitt - Electronic book - 1830 - 148 pages
...EVE. Go, haste unto thy sisters— hence— away — I, too, am sad, and now would be alone. POEMS. There is often found In mournful thoughts, and always might be found, A power to virtue friendly ; were *t not so, I am a Dreamer among men, indeed An idle Dreamer ! THE EXCURSION. TO THE MARTIN.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1836 - 374 pages
...dalliance with tbe misery Even of the dead ; contented thence to draw A momentary pleasure, never marked By reason, barren of all future good. But we have...always might be found, A power to virtue friendly ; were't not so, I am a dreamer among men, indeed An idle dreamer ! 'Tis a common tale, An ordinary... | |
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It were a wantonness, and would demand Severe reproof, if we were men whose hearts Could hold vain dalliance with the misery Even of the dead; contented thence to draw A momentary pleasure, never marked By reason, barren of all future good. But we have... 
