 Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea, Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free : So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.  The Prose Works of John Milton - Page xxxvby John Milton - 1838 - 963 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1873 - 984 pages
...self-confidence, he ventures to compare himself. " His soul was like a star, and dwelt apart; He had a voice whose sound was like the sea ; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So did he travel on life's common way"— but we pause when we come to the two concluding linen :— "... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1820 - 362 pages
...freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sei Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. XV GREAT Men have been among us; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom, better none : The... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: fires: There hateful GREAT MEN HAVE BEEN AMONG US. Great men have been among us ; hands that penn'd And tongues that uttered... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 482 pages
...to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. XV. GREAT Men have been among us; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom, better none: The... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...Ne'er to be found again. MILTON. units 160S—DIED 1674. Thy'soul was like a star, and dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea; Pure...naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel, in life's common way In cheerful tnxlllness. WORDSWORTH JOHN MILTON, who is pre-eminently the divine... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star and dwelt apart: Thou hadsta voice whose sound was like the sea; Pure as the naked...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. SONNET. ON THE FINAL SUBMISSION OF THE TYROLE8E. IT was a moral end for which they fought; Else how,... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 408 pages
...MILTON. " Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart: Thou hads.1 a voice whose sound was like the sc»; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst...way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lewliest duties on herself did lay."—Wordsworth. Milton, who is rightly classed among the most exalted... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...given« manners, virtue.freedom, power. Thy soul «ни like a Star and dwelt apart: I (щи hadet a voice whose sound was like the sea ; Pure as the...majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, ID rheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart I In- lowliest duties on itself did lay. XV. IT is not to... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 pages
...virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : 146 WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS. Tlmu hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure...as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou (ravel on life's common way, lu cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself... | |
 | 1831 - 488 pages
...even more truly than of AI ilion, may U be said, " His soul was as a star, and dwelt apart : He bad a voice whose sound was like the sea, Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free." To him succeeded Aristotle, without the everyday practical wisdom of Socrates, and without the wrapt... | |
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