 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1853 - 300 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 sorrow... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 pages
...nmilominus feriamur ; at reclines quidem, ut otiosas: at de his ct tills inter se libere colloqucntes. THE SECOND LANDING-PLACE. ESSAY I. It were a wantonness,...always might be found A power to virtue friendly. WORDSWOBTH, MS I KNOW not how I can better commence my second LandingPlace, as joining on to the section... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1854 - 388 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...found In mournful thoughts, and always might be found, A_jx>wer to virtue friendly ;* were 't not so, I am a dreamer among men, indeed An idle dreamer ! 'T... | |
 | Henry Reed - Great Britain - 1856 - 484 pages
...pity and terror for the purpose of chastening such passions."* A great modern poet tells us that — " It were a wantonness, and would demand Severe reproof,...good. But we have known that there is often found * Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry, chap. vi. In mournful thoughts, and always might be found, A power... | |
 | Horace Binney Wallace - American literature - 1856 - 478 pages
...sadness. " ' There is often found,' says the sweet prophet of the moral muse, my master Wordsworth — ' There is often found In mournful thoughts, and always might be found, A power, to virtue friendly.' " All joy and complacency tends to unnerve and enfeeble the spirit, and all saddening thoughts are... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 472 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 ; wer't not so, I am a dreamer among men, indeed An idle dreamer! 'Tis a common tale, An ordinary sorrow... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pages
...ruin, I 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Bookbinding - 1858 - 550 pages
...ruin, I 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,...there is often found In mournful thoughts, and always mia;ht be found. A power to virtue friendly : wero't not so, 1 am a dreamer among men, indeed An idle... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Bookbinding, Victorian - 1859 - 128 pages
...dalliance with the misery Even of the dead ; contented thence to draw A momentary pleasure, never marked 36 By reason, barren of all future good. But we have...always might be found, A power to virtue friendly; wer't not so, I am a dreamer among men, indeed An idle dreamer ! 'T is a common tale, An ordinary sorrow... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1859 - 120 pages
...dalliance with the misery Even of the dead; contented thence to draw A momentary pleasure, never marked 86 By reason, barren of all future good. But we have...often found In mournful thoughts, and always might he found, A power to virtue friendly; wer't not so, I am a dreamer among men, indeed An idle dreamer... | |
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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... 
