 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 pages
...misery Even of the dead ; contented thence to draw A momentary pleasure, never marked By reason, harren of all future good. But we have known that there is often found, la mournful thoughts, and always might he found, A power to virtue friendly ; were't not so, I am a... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 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...often found In mournful thoughts, and always might be foued, A power to virtue friendly , were't not so, I am a dreamer among men, indeed An idle dreamer... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1874 - 88 pages
...dalliance with the misery Even of the dead; contented thence to draw A momentary pleasure, never marked 630 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... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 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 ! "Iis a common tale, An ordinary... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 828 pages
...vain dalliance with the misery Even of the dead : contented thence to draw abridged THE EXCURSION. And solemn requiem for the dead ; And bells to! I'd...pealing organ rung; Were it meet with sacred strai : were 't not so, I am a dreamer among men, indeed, An idle dreamer ! 'tis a common tale, An ordinary... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1879 - 390 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1879 - 362 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... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 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 , wcre't not so, I am a dreamer among men, indeed An idle dreamer ! 'Tis a common tale, An ordinary... | |
 | lady Margaret Stewart Simpson - Christian life - 1880 - 128 pages
...would have been now. Yet it is good for us sometimes to retrace in thought our times of trial ; for ' We have known that there is often found In mournful...always might be found, A power to virtue friendly.' Our Lord knew it when He taught Paul to say, ' Our . . . affliction . . . worketh . . . while we look... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1881 - 732 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... | |
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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... 
