 Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover ; and attired With sudden brightness,...  The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey - Side 258af Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1896Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1859 - 914 sider
...of whom we are now writing, that he was one, " who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad,...happy as a lover, and attired With sudden brightness, as a man inspired ; ' And, through the heat of conflicts, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 sider
...if sAe bo ealled upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or had for human kind, Is happy as a lover ; and, attired With sudden brightness, like to one inspired; And through the heat of confliet keeps the law In ealmness made, and sees what she... | |
 | Samuel M. Wolfe - 1860 - 286 sider
...countrymen North and South instinctively discerned whenever "called upon to face some awful moment to which Heaven has joined great issues, good or bad, for human kind." I have sought, sir, in a cursory way, under the whip and spur of this hour rule, to show that there... | |
 | 1861 - 144 sider
...life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment, to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad...attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw ; Or,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1862 - 360 sider
...peculiar grace ; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which heaven has join'd Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy...attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired." A brightness, however, was about all his daily life. In the leafy lanes and ample meadows of Buckinghamshire,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 270 sider
...join'd Great i;-si:r- , good or bad, for human kiud — IB happy as a lover, and attired With a supernal brightness, like a man inspired " — then, at least,...scarcely tried in such a situation. There can be no doubt, however, that he merited the praises of his brother ; and it was indeed an idle tale, that he... | |
 | Derwent Coleridge - 1863 - 372 sider
...peculiar grace ; But who if he be called upon to fece Some awful moment, to which heaven has join'd Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a lover, is attired With sudden brightness like a man inspired ; And through the heat of conflict keeps the... | |
 | 1864 - 690 sider
...distress, Thence also more alive to tenderness ; But who, if he be called upon to face •Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, !•* happy as a lover, and attired With sudden brightness as a man inspired, And through the heat... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1865 - 318 sider
...life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad...attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw ; Or... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1865 - 594 sider
...constant influence — a peculiar grace : But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment, to which Heaven has joined Great Issues, good or bad,...attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw ; Or... | |
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