| Gary Lee Harrison - 1994 - 250 pages
...the beggar returns to the villagers the calling to do good and the satisfaction of having done so: Let him bear about The good which the benignant law...him: and, while life is his, Still let him prompt the unlettered villagers To tender offices and pensive thoughts. (166-70; PW 4: 239) The beggar's poverty... | |
| Jean Starobinski - 1997 - 232 pages
...of things has borne him, he appears To breathe and live but for himself alone, Unblamed, uninjured, let him bear about The good which the benignant law...him; and, while life is his, Still let him prompt the unlettered villagers To tender offices and pensive thoughts. —Then let him pass, a blessing on his... | |
| David Bromwich - 2000 - 204 pages
...himself alone, Unblam'd, uninjur'd, let him bear about The good which the benignant law of heaven 160 Has hung around him, and, while life is his, Still let him prompt the unletter'd Villagers To tender offices and pensive thoughts. Then let him pass, a blessing on his head!... | |
| Laurence Coupe - 2000 - 346 pages
...The beggar is the agent of this underlying, almost lost community: And while, in that vast solitude to which The tide of things has led him, he appears...him, and, while life is his, Still let him prompt the unletter'd Villagers To tender offices and pensive thoughts. The spirit of community, that is to say,... | |
| Laurence Coupe - 2000 - 340 pages
...The beggar is the agent of this underlying, almost lost community: And while, in that vast solitude to which The tide of things has led him, he appears...him, and, while life is his, Still let him prompt the unletter'd Villagers To tender offices and pensive thoughts. The spirit of community, that is to say,... | |
| William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2003 - 356 pages
...himself alone, Unblam'd, uninjur'd, let him bear about The good which the benignant law of heaven 160 Has hung around him, and, while life is his, Still let him prompt the unletter'd Villagers To tender offices and pensive thoughts. Then let him pass, a blessing OH his head!... | |
| Joel Faflak - 2009 - 336 pages
...live but for himself alone," Wordsworth argues that, "Unblamed, uninjured," he should be allowed "to bear about / The good which the benignant law of Heaven / Has hung around him" (163-68). The peripatetic, central to the Wordsworthian ethos, thus evokes a subtextual repetitiveness,... | |
| 308 pages
...of things has borne him, he appears To breathe and live but for himself alone, Unblamed, uninjured, let him bear about The good which the benignant law...him: and, while life is his, Still let him prompt the unlettered villagers To tender offices and pensive thoughts. 170 — Then let him pass, a blessing... | |
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