 Was like a lake, or river bright and fair, A span of waters ; yet what power is there ! What mightiness for evil and for good ! Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blow, and waters roll, Strength to the brave, and power, and...  The Living Age - Pagina 1121908Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 578 pagina’s
...higher agency as the vital protection : — ' Even so doth God protect us if we he Virtuous and wise. Winds blow and waters roll, Strength to the brave,...One decree Spake laws to them, and said that by the aoul Only, the nations shall be great and free.' — p. 129. The same strain of sentiment will be found... | |
 | John Rylands Library - 1917 - 556 pagina’s
...detailed mastery of a statesman ; but the informing passion of the whole is his own lofty conviction that, " by the soul only the Nations shall be great and free," and that the soul is nowhere more greatly manifested than in the heroic crises of national existence.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 pagina’s
...enemies became friends, so disasters of all kinds, as sickness, offence, poverty, prove benefactors: — "Winds blow and waters roll Strength to the brave,...and power and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing." The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pagina’s
...enemies became friends, so disasters of all kinds, as sickness, offence, poverty, prove benefactors: — "Winds blow and waters roll Strength to the brave,...and power and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing." The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not... | |
 | Stuart Curran - 1990 - 288 pagina’s
...cultural perspective and inner assurance, through incorporating Milton's voice and vision. If it is true that "by the Soul / Only the Nations shall be great and free" (11.13-14), Wordsworth discovers his country's soul not in venal speculators who look to iciiomentary... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 pagina’s
...there! What mightiness for evil and for good! Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blow, and waters roll, Strength to the brave,...the soul Only, the Nations shall be great and free. London, 1802 Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen... | |
 | Alexander Crummell, Southern Texts Society - 1995 - 298 pagina’s
...statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people." Dueteronomy 4:6. 19. "One decree / Spake laws to them, and said that by...soul / Only, the Nations shall be great and free." William Wordsworth, "September, 1802. Near Dover," ll. 12-14. 20. "I may not hope from outward forms... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 552 pagina’s
...hope of Europe and of civilization rested ' Even so doth God protect us, if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blow and waters roll, Strength to the brave,...and power and deity : Yet in themselves are nothing 1 One decree Spake laws to them, and said that by the soul Only the nations shall be great and free... | |
 | Virginia Hanson, Rosemarie Stewart, Shirley J. Nicholson - 2001 - 316 pagina’s
...disasters of all kinds, as sickness, offence, poverty, prove benefactors: — Winds blow and water roll Strength to the brave and power and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing. The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 pagina’s
...enemies became friends, so disasters of all kinds, as sickness, offence, poverty, prove benefactors; "Winds blow and waters roll Strength to the brave,...and power and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing." The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not... | |
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