 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...  Littell's Living Age - Pagina 1121908Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Sir Henry Taylor - 1878 - 378 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... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1879 - 390 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. VI.— THOUGHT or A BRITON ON THE SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND. Two Voices are there ; one is of the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1879 - 362 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. VI.— THOUGHT OF A BRITON ON THE SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND. Two Voices are there ; one is of the... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1880 - 330 pagina’s
...there 1 What mightiness for evil and for good 1 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 SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND. Two voices are there ; one is of the sea, One of the mountains ;... | |
 | David M. Main - 1880 - 506 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. ccvni THOUGHT OF A BRITON ON THE SUBJUGATION Or SWITZERLAND. ' I "WO Voices are there ; one is of the... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 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,...themselves are nothing ! One decree Spake laws to the m, and sftid that by the soul Only the nations shall be great and free ! THOUGHT OF A BRITON ON... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1880 - 1432 pagina’s
...conquer the ' subtle element,' the irrepressible force of national life, which ' rises like water.' Winds blow and waters roll, Strength to the brave,...and power and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing. Wordsworth's political changes have been the subject of considerable comment. And it is true that in... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pagina’s
...became friends, so disasters of all kinds, as sickness, offence, poverty, prove bene- 245 factors : " 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 250 man had ever a point of pride that was... | |
 | 1883 - 692 pagina’s
...teaches men to regard the latter as a means, not an end, and to learn the true rule, and to practice it, that "By the soul Only the nations shall be great and free." Arnold puts into the mouth o'f culture the following diatribe concerning the materialistic conception... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1916 - 676 pagina’s
...cried, as he looked on the narrow waters that lie between England and France : Vol. 22C.--.Vo. 448. K ' Winds blow, and waters roll, Strength to the brave,...the soul Only, the Nations shall be great and free.' These were not mere phrases in Wordsworth's mouth. He meant every syllable of them. It was the very... | |
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