 A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller betwixt life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill ; A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit, still and bright...  Selections from the poetical works of William Wordsworth, ed. with notes by ... - Seite xivon William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1881Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1873 - 612 Seiten
...Wordsworth describes when he says : — ' A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a spirit still, and bright, With something of an angel fight.' We have read this story with unmixed pleasure, and trust it may not be long before Miss Thackeray... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 Seiten
...foresight, strength and skill ; A perfect Woman ; nobly plann'd, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light. 15 The REDBREAST and the BUTTERFLY. Art thou the Bird whom Man loves best, The pious Bird with the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 Seiten
...foresight, strength and skill ; A perfect Woman ; nobly plann'd, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still,, and bright With something of an angel li^ht. 15 The REDBREAST and the BUTTERFLY. Art thoa the Bird whom Man loves best. The pious Bird with... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 Seiten
...foresight, strength, and skill, i A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light. >- • VIII. 0 NIGHTINGALE! thou surely art A Creature of ebullient heart : — These notes of thine... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 Seiten
...foresight, strength, and skill, A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light. 311 VIII. 0 NIGHTINGALE! thou surely art A Creature of ebullient heart : — These notes of thine —... | |
 | 1829 - 1008 Seiten
...the sanctity, of our admiration, yet declare, in the delightful lines of Wordsworth, that she " Is a creature not too bright and good For human nature's daily food ; 2M for transient sorrows, simple wile?, Praise, blame, IOVP, kisses, tears, and smiles." Of small... | |
 | 1865 - 790 Seiten
...to impossible. At such a moment Maga would have been sweet, had she come in, brown but comely — " A creature not too bright and good For human nature's daily food." But, alas ! Maga was not, and in unsuspecting innocence the hand which at this moment writes took up... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1818 - 1164 Seiten
...with the poet when he speaks of *' A perfect woman, nobly planned To warn, to comfort and command ; And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light." But man has never regarded woman with respect and true love, except so far as he has regarded her as... | |
 | Elizabeth Constantia Agnew - 1819 - 266 Seiten
...Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill: A perfect woman, nobly planned To warn, to comfort, and command. And yet a spirit still and bright, With something of an angel light. WORDSWORTH. AT this part of the conversation, Mr. Everard joined the two friends, and, much pleased... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1820 - 372 Seiten
...foresight, strength, and skill, A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light. 134 IX. 0 NIGHTINGALE ! thou surely art A Creature of a fiery heart : — These notes of thine —... | |
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