 | Lady, A Lady - Bereavement - 1836 - 338 pages
...The calm of nature with our restless thoughts 7" WORDSWORTH. MOURNFUL THOUGHTS FRIENDLY TO VIRTUE. WE have known that there is often found In mournful...might be found A power to virtue friendly. WORDSWORTH. GRIEVE NO MORE. MY Friend ! enough to sorrow you have given, The purposes of wisdom ask no more ; Be... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 750 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 796 pages
...with the misery Even of the dead: contented thence to draw 423 A. momentary pleasure, never raark'd pain, •• Come quickly, Martha, or you come in...nothing held, employ 'd, engaged her here. " I ara : were Ч not so, 1 am a dreamer among men, indeed, An idle dreamer ! 'tis a common tale, An ordinary... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - English poetry - 1838 - 752 pages
...Even of the dead : contented thence to draw A momentary pleasure, never mark'd ' By reason, harren g : were 't not so, I am a dreamer among men, indeed, An idle dreamer ! 'tis a common tale, An ordinary... | |
 | mrs. Quintin Kennedy - Methodism - 1840 - 320 pages
...to be rife with instruction the most important and momentous. THE VOICE OF CONSCIENCE. CHAPTER I. " But we have known that there is often found In mournful...found — A power to virtue friendly." WORDSWORTH. Try, and perhaps thou might' at not err To sound the depths of ocean's caves, When long and late the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1841 - 400 pages
...momentary pleasure, never marked By reason, barren of all future good. But we have known thatihere .is often found In mournful thoughts, and always might be found, A power to virtue friendly ; jwere't not so, I am a dreamer among men, indeed An idle dreamer ! "Pis a common tale, An ordinary... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...Ruin, I returned, And begged of the old Man that, for my sake, He would resume his story. He replied, But we have known that there is often found In mournful...always might be found, A power to virtue friendly ; wer 't not so, I am a dreamer among men, indeed An idle dreamer ! "Tis a common tale, An ordinary... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...Ruin, I returned, And begged of the old Man that, for my sake, He would resume his story. He replied, But we have known that there is often found In mournful...always might be found, A power to virtue friendly ; wer Ч not so, I am a dreamer among men, indeed An idle dreamer ! "Tie a common tale, An ordinary... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1847 - 404 pages
...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...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... | |
 | George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - American literature - 1847 - 1376 pages
...it. But the poet '•"!>ctKiture all of joyous fancips ; he t:-"m 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 rolling out gladness,... | |
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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... 
