 | 1839 - 538 sider
...eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A Traveller between life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate will,...to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, anJ bright With something of an angel-light." Into his pictures of female gracefulness, Wordsworth... | |
 | 1839 - 168 sider
...this object it must be our next step to inquire. CHAPTER VI. EDUCATION OF WOMEN. And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine; A being...breath, A traveller betwixt life and death; The reason fair, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill, A perfect woman, nobly planned,... | |
 | 1839 - 880 sider
...firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill ; A perfect Woman, nobly plaim'd, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit...still, and bright With something of an angel light." We have always been much affected by the beauty and simplicity of the following lines of Moore, which... | |
 | mrs hemans - 1839 - 408 sider
...man; and our feelings are in harmony with the poet when he speaks of ' 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.' But man has never regarded woman with respect and true love, except srt far as he has regarded her... | |
 | 1840 - 188 sider
...object it must be our next step to inquire. 5* CHAPTER VI. EDUCATION OF WOMEN. And now I see, with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine ; A being,...breath, A traveller betwixt life and death ; The reason fair, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill, A perfect woman, nobly planned,... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1840 - 452 sider
...then might we say, addressing each one of them, in the language of Wordsworth : " And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A being...breath, A traveller betwixt life and death ; The reason fair, the temperate will, Kndurance, foresight, strength, and skill, ./I perfect woman, nobly planned,... | |
 | 1840 - 566 sider
...artificial extravagance of chivalry — the realization of a poet's vision: "A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet...still and bright, With something of an angel light." In no respect is Scott's superiority over ordinary novelists more conspicuous, than in his mode of... | |
 | 1840 - 368 sider
...firm, the temperate will, Endurance, 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. THREE years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, " A lovelier flower On earth was never sown... | |
 | 1869 - 406 sider
...transient sorrows, simple wiles. Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. And now I see with eyes serene The very pulse of the machine ; A being breathing...still, and bright With something of an angel light." In 1808 Wordsworth removed from his quiet and modest cottage to a larger house called Allan Bank. While... | |
 | John Walker Brown - 1841 - 170 sider
...see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine ; A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveler betwixt life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate...still, and bright, With something of an angel light." WOKDSWOKTHTO THE SECOND EDITION. The call for a second edition of this little work, while it is gratifying... | |
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Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles. 
