| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1857 - 480 pages
...state ; Whom they must follow ; on whose head must fall, Like showers of manna, if they come at all : Whose powers shed round him in the common strife,...upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover ; and attired With sudden brightness,... | |
| George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 372 pages
...loose ahout, Grow up and perish, as the summer-fly, Heads without name, no more rememhered. SA, 674. Whose powers shed round him in the common strife,...ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace. WORDSWORTH. ' Character of the Happy Warrior.' 'Tis a common tale, An ordinary sorrow of man's life.... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - Christian biography - 1858 - 88 pages
...glorious gain ; In face of these doth exercise a power Which is our human nature's highest dower ; Whose powers shed round him, in the common strife...upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad, for human kind, Is happy as a lover ; and attired With sudden brightness... | |
| WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pages
...state ; Whom they must follow ; on whose head must fall, like showers of manna, if they come at all ; Whose powers shed round him in the common strife,...constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if he be call'd upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has join'd Great issues, good or bad for human... | |
| George L. Craik - Self-culture - 1858 - 894 pages
...Wordsworth's fine lines on the character of " The Happy Warrior:" — " Whose powers shed round him iu the common strife. Or mild concerns of ordinary life,...constant influence — a peculiar grace : But who, if ho be called upon to luce Some awful moment, to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad,... | |
| William Wordsworth - Bookbinding - 1858 - 550 pages
...fall, Like showers of manna, if they come at all ; Whose powers shed round him in the common strif% Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if he be call'd upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has join'd Great issues, good or bad for human... | |
| John Garnett (of Windermere.) - 1858 - 80 pages
...that of blind and impetuous revenge. In like manner, our heroic countrymen, "Call'd upon to face An awful moment, to which Heaven has join'd Great issues, good or bad, for human kind," A . e . ! seem to us to be moving to the execution of their stern and life-devoting task of restoring... | |
| Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence - Great Britain - 1859 - 528 pages
...state ; Whom they must follow, on whose head must fall Like showers of manna if they come at all : Whose powers shed round him in the common strife,...upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover, and attired With sudden brightness,... | |
| Simeon Nash - Ethics - 1859 - 478 pages
...state ; Whom they must follow; on whose head must fall Like showers of manna, if they come at all ; 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, Is happy as a lover ; and attired With sudden brightness,... | |
| 1859 - 914 pages
...honourable terms." Nor is it less true of the Happy Warrior of whom we are now writing, that he was one, " who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad, for human kind, Is happy as a lover, and attired With sudden brightness,... | |
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