 | Poems - 1872 - 362 ページ
...same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh...I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour; Oh, let my weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The... | |
 | George Eliot - 1872 - 400 ページ
...motiveless levity. voi. iv. 274 CHAPTEE LXXX. " Stern lawgiver I yet thon dost wear The Godhead•s most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair...ancient Heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. — WORDSWORTH : Ode to Duty WHEN Dorothea had seen Mr Farebrother in the morning, she had promised... | |
 | 1872 - 692 ページ
...he will have a sense of rest in feeling ihat all other troubles and anxieties are removed from him. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...the smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thee in their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads. Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong, And the... | |
 | English poetry - 1873 - 390 ページ
...feel the weight of chance-desires : My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear...I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh, let my weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The... | |
 | James Chandler - 1984 - 338 ページ
...invariable conformity to moral law just as the activity of flowers and stars conforms to natural law: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance...I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour; Oh, let my weakness have an end! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence... | |
 | Louis Jacobs - 1987 - 166 ページ
...not an unpleasant burden. This custom reminds one of William Wordsworth's lines in his "Ode to Duty': Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most...Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance on thy footing treads. "A custom developed by the mystics of the sixteenth century is to stay up all... | |
 | 1875 - 398 ページ
...from duty fulfilled. In his " Ode to Duty " he brings all under her stem but benignant power : — " Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. " Offended conscience, moreover, drew aids from Nature to assert again its injured majesty, a sentiment... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 ページ
...I prize No farther than they breed a second Will more wise.] Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear 50 The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything...I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour; 60 Oh, let my weakness have an end! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The... | |
 | Martha Woodmansee, Peter Jaszi - 1994 - 482 ページ
...intrinsic undecidable causality of moral speech. At issue is the following stanza of the Ode to Duty : Stern lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most...the most ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong.68 "The last two lines," Francis Jeffrey notes, "seem to be utterly without meaning; at least... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1994 - 228 ページ
...become, my dear little boy, even though one has to pay a heavy price for the blessing. CHAPTER FIVE Stem Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant...ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. WORDSWORTH But what became of little Tom? He slipped away off the rocks into the water, as I said before.... | |
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Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And... 
