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
| 1846 - 730 pagina’s
...never were uttered, by poet or philosopher, truer words than those noble lines of Wordsworth — " Winds blow, and waters roll Strength to THE BRAVE,...; Yet in themselves are nothing! One decree Spake \.\i\- to them, and said that by the SOUL Only, the Nations shall be great and free." California, to... | |
| George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 1847 - 374 pagina’s
...the strength of Heaven, if you mean that. Camus, 415. O joyless power that stands by lawless force ! Winds blow and waters roll, Strength to the brave,...and Power, and Deity ; Yet in themselves are nothing Hj Exercise. Feats of or agility excite our wonder and surprise, but they seldom raise in us any great... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pagina’s
...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 - 1848 - 400 pagina’s
...enemies became friends, so do 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 - 1848 - 384 pagina’s
...enemies became friends, so do 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... | |
| George Frederick Graham - 1849 - 380 pagina’s
...that. Coma, VS. 0 joyless power that stands by lawless force ! WORDSWOHTH. ' Sonnets to Liberty.' - Winds blow and waters roll, Strength to the brave, and Power, and Deity j Yet in themselves are nothing li.1 Exercise. Feats of — — or agility excite our wonder and surprise,... | |
| sir Henry Taylor - 1849 - 328 pagina’s
...higher agency as the vital protection : — ' 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.' The same strain of sentiment will be found to recur repeatedly in the sonnets which relate to the events... | |
| Sir Henry Taylor - 1849 - 322 pagina’s
...higher agency as the vital protection : — ' Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blow and waters roll, Strength to the brave,...that by the soul Only, the nations shall be great and free.1 The same strain of sentiment will be found to recur repeatedly in the sonnets which relate to... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pagina’s
...enemies became friends, so do disasters of all kinds, or 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pagina’s
...enemies became friends, so do disasters of all kinds, or 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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