 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 648 pages
...with the misery Even of the dead ; contented thence to draw A momentary pleasure, never marked 23° 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 235 An idle dreamer ! 'T is a common tale, An ordinary... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 654 pages
...with the misery Even of the dead ; contented thence to draw A momentary pleasure, never marked 230 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 235 An idle dreamer ! 'T is a common tale, An ordinary... | |
 | Charles Harold Herford - English poetry - 1902 - 366 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 - 1904 - 382 pages
...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 known that therejs often found In— mtrarfifiil thoughts, and always might be -. »4 K found, A power to virtue... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 956 pages
...with the misery Even of the dead ; contented thence to draw A momentary pleasure, never marked 630 X 2 were Ч not so, I am a dreamer among men, indeed An idle dreamer ! 'T is a common tale, An ordinary... | |
 | 1920 - 604 pages
...pleasure, never marked By reason, barren of all future good; 11. B9 Mt. But we have known that there ia often found In mournful thoughts, and always might be found, A power to virtue friendly."* In this interesting passage Wordsworth, in the first place, explicitly denies that he tells the sad... | |
 | University of Wisconsin - Language and languages - 1922 - 300 pages
...of Wordsworth's thought. Professor Campbell does well to lay stress on the words of the Wanderer : But we have known that there is often found In mournful...always might be found, A power to virtue friendly;"* Bui it must be pointed out that in interpreting these lines we must interpret them in accordance with... | |
 | william worsworth - 1923 - 498 pages
...old Man that, for my sake, He would resume his story. He replied, 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1977 - 308 pages
...920), pp. 2 1 -57, still provides a useful and compendious discussion of Wordsworth's later claims that "there is often found / In mournful thoughts,...always might be found, / A power to virtue friendly." Chapter 4 suggests why and how the idea began to emerge in 1798-1800. 38 nonetheless, taken in sum,... | |
 | Robert Brinkley, Keith Hanley - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 396 pages
...with a new pronoun: "we." We are not men whose hearts hold "vain dalliance" with the dead, because "we have known that there is often found / In mournful...always might be found, / A power to virtue friendly" (8.286-8). The young narrator may not have known he knew that. Our first sight of him, irascibly making... | |
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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... 
