| Sons of New Hampshire - 1854 - 254 ページ
...poetry becomes history — " The primal duties shine aloft like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers." Eeligion and learning, churches and colleges, dr.aw upon the funds of this prosperous city, and their... | |
| Sarah Elizabeth B. Patterson - 1855 - 362 ページ
...between to that happy home. CHAPTER XIII. A LOVE OFFEBING FROM THE POOR. " The charities that soothe and heal and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers." WOBDSWOBTB. " IT'S Miss Mary I'm wanting, — it's the bonnie bird Miss Mary, that they hae driven... | |
| John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 ページ
...immortal verse. Book ix. The primal duties shine aloft, like stars ; The charities, that soothe, and healj and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers. The Prelude. Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very Heaven. HON. WILLIAM ROBERT... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1856 - 430 ページ
...might have drawn his lines : " The primal duties shine aloft like stars, The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers." But the distinction between the two passages is that between the two poets, the one comparatively artificial... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1857 - 490 ページ
...ar ALL. — Wordstaortk. The primal duties shine aloft, like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man...pure thoughts, — No mystery is here ; no special lx)on For high and not for low, for proudly-graced And not for meek of heart. The smoke ascends To... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1857 - 328 ページ
...rest ! Believe it not : The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man...actions, and pure thoughts — No mystery is here ! Here is no boon For high — yet not for low ; for proudly graced — Yet not for meek of heart.... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1857 - 488 ページ
...BY ALL. — Wordsworth. The primal duties shine aloft, like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man...wishes, and good actions, and pure thoughts, — No mvstery is here ; no special boon For high and not for low, for proudly-graced And not for meek of... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1857 - 472 ページ
...aloft—like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man—like flowers. The generous inclination, the just rule,...good actions, and pure thoughts— No mystery is here ! Here is no boon For high—yet not for low ; for proudly graced— Yet not for meek of heart. The... | |
| Thomas Smyth - 1857 - 222 ページ
...as they affect hia glory. "The primal duties shine aloft like stars: The charities that soothe aud heal and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers." A branch, in order to fructify, must be one with the stock, and the stock one with the root, from which,... | |
| George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 372 ページ
...as will. Hamlet, iii. 3. Go whither fate and inclination strong Leads thee. PL, x. 265. The gracious inclination, the just rule, Kind wishes, and good actions, and pure thoughts. The Excursion, ix. constant disposition of his thoughts To sympathy with man. Id., i.] Exercise. Julins... | |
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