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
| Aristotle - 1874 - 458 sider
...Wordsworth's description may well be compared with that of Aristotle : " Who, if he be called upon to face Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy...attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what lie foresaw ; Or... | |
| Aristotle - 1874 - 508 sider
...that of Aristotle : " Who, if he be call«! upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joinwl Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy...attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps tho law In calmness made, and sees what ho foresaw ; Or... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 584 sider
...of ordinary life, Some awful moment to which Heaver has joined Great issues, good or bad for lumiau kind. Is happy as a lover; and 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 if... | |
| Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 sider
...life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if she be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad...lover ; and, attired With sudden brightness, like to one inspired ,* And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what she... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - 1875 - 728 sider
...peculiar grace ; But who, if he be call'd 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 ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw; Or,... | |
| United States. 77th Cong., 2d sess., 1942, United States. Congress - 1944 - 156 sider
...William Wordsworth had in mind when he said: Who, U he be called upon to face Some awful moment In which Heaven has Joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind la happy as a lover; and attired In sudden brightness like a man Inspired. This is the happy warrior;... | |
| 1908 - 272 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 for human kind, Is hapy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired; And, through the heat of... | |
| United States. Congress - 1949 - 102 sider
...upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven haa joined Great issues, good or bad, for humankind, Is happy as a lover; and 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 if... | |
| Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1903 - 248 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. The two... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 sider
...peculiar grace; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined 50 Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy...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 if... | |
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