| American poetry - 1842 - 504 pages
...creed Of childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope stUl fluttering in his breast : Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise...vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing... | |
| Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1842 - 412 pages
...Childhood, whether fluttering or at rest, With new-born hope for ever in his breast:— What was fugitive ! Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise;...vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realiz'd, High instincts, before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 426 pages
...the recollections of childhood on account of the delight, liberty, and hope, of that happy period, " But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and...vanishings, Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realised." Here again the timid neophyte besought a little enlightening. " What can 'fallings... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 414 pages
...the recollections of childhood on account of the delight, liberty, and hope, of that happy period, " But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and...vanishings, Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realised." Here again the timid neophyte besought a little enlightening. " What can 'fallings... | |
| 1843 - 684 pages
...first birth, the wreath of love WHS woven, With sparklingetars for flowers."— The Picealamini. " Those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, • Are yet the fountain-light of nil our day; Are yet a master-light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish,... | |
| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
...new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast : — Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise 5 But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and...vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing... | |
| Sharon Turner - Creation - 1844 - 452 pages
...new-fledged hope still fluttering in her breast. Not for these I raise The song of thanks imd praise — But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections,...they what they may. Are yet the fountain- light of ail our day ; j Are yet a master-light of all our seeing ; Uphold us ; cherish ; and have power to... | |
| Samuel Sidwell Randall - Education - 1844 - 264 pages
...our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive ! " * * * "— those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet the master-light of all our seeing, Uphold us, cherish... | |
| William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast : — Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise...vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing... | |
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