 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 648 sider
...Aspirant of the plough, The prompt, the brave, Slept, with the obscurest, in the low And silent grave. 3° I mourned with thousands, but as one More deeply grieved,...showed my youth How Verse may build a princely throne 35 On humble truth. Alas ! where'er the current tends, Regret pursues and with it blends, — Huge... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 176 sider
...and patriarchal it is." 27-30. This displays itself in his choice of subjects. Wordsworth says : " He showed my youth How verse may build a princely throne On humble truth." At the Grave of Burns. " Song drooped and fell, and one 'neath northern skies, With southern heart,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 180 sider
...and patriarchal it is." 27-30. This displays itself in his choice of subjects. Wordsworth says : " He showed my youth How verse may build a princely throne On humble truth." At the Grave of Burns. " Song drooped and fell, and one 'neath northern skies, With southern heart,... | |
 | Henry MacArthur - 1897 - 314 sider
...the poet : — ' Whose light I hailed when first it shone, When, breaking forth as Nature's own, It showed my youth How verse may build a princely throne On humble truth.' And what we have now to remember is that the influence thus described was passed on from Ramsay to... | |
 | William Cowper - 1898 - 330 sider
...genius had felt. In the wellknown Lines at the Grave of Burns, this stanza owns the large indebtedness : I mourned with thousands, but as one More deeply grieved,...verse may build a princely throne On humble truth. And in the poem called Thoughts, written the day following the composition of the verses just quoted,... | |
 | Alexander Balloch Grosart - 1898 - 168 sider
...of the most heartfelt tribute ever paid to any poet by Wordsworth — always chary of his praise. ' I mourned with thousands, but as one More deeply grieved...verse may build a princely throne On humble truth.' III. THOMAS CARLYLE. Elsewhere I shall be compelled to criticise hasty words on Ramsay and Fergusson... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1898 - 152 sider
...Aspirant of the plow, The prompt, the brave, Slept, with the obscurest, in the low And silent grave. 30 I mourned with thousands, but as one More deeply grieved,...showed my youth How Verse may build a princely throne 35 On humble truth.1 Alas! where'er the current tends, Regret pursues and with it blends, — Huge... | |
 | W. H. Venable, LL. D. - 1898 - 152 sider
...Aspirant of the plow, The prompt, the brave, Slept, with the obscurest, in the low And silent grave. 30 I mourned with thousands, but as one More deeply grieved,...showed my youth How Verse may build a princely throne 35 On humble truth. 1 Alas! where'er the current tends, Regret pursues and with it blends,— Huge... | |
 | D. Brown Anderson - 1899 - 398 sider
...aspirant of the plough, The prompt, the brave, Slept with the obscurest, in the low And silent grave. " I mourned with thousands, but as one More deeply grieved,...first it shone, And showed my youth How verse may bnild a princely throne " Alas ! where'er the current tends, Regret pursues, and with it blendsHuge... | |
 | James Lauren Ford, Mary K. Ford - 1902 - 470 sider
...Aspirant of the plough, The prompt, the brave, Slept, with the obscurest, in the low And silent grave. I mourned with thousands, but as one More deeply grieved,...Verse may build a princely throne On humble truth. Alas! where'er the current tends, Regret pursues and with it blends,— Huge Cnffel's hoary top ascends... | |
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I mourned with thousands, but as one More deeply grieved, for He was gone Whose light I hailed when first it shone, And showed my youth How Verse may build a princely throne On humble truth. 
