 Who, doomed to go in company with pain, And fear, and bloodshed, miserable train ! Turns his necessity to glorious gain ; In face of these doth exercise a power Which is our human nature's highest dower ; Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves...  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 20edited by - 1850Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 pages
...his necessity to glorious gain ; In face of these doth exercise a power Which is our human-nature's highest dower; Controls them and subdues, transmutes,...objects, which might force the soul to abate Her feeling, render'd more compassionate; Is placable because occasions rise So often that demand such sacrifice... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pages
...compassionate; Is placable because occasions rise So often that demand such sacrifice ; More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure, As tempted more ; more able to endure, As more expos'd to suffering and distress ; Thence, also, more alive to tenderness. 32 Tis he whose law is... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...his necessity to glorious gain; In face of these doth exercise a power Which. is our human-nature's highest dower; Controls them and subdues, transmutes,...occasions rise So often that demand such sacrifice ; More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure, As tempted more ; more able to endure, As more exposed to... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...power Which is our human-nature's highest dower ; Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereavesOf their bad influence, and their good receives ; By...occasions rise So often that demand such sacrifice ; More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure, As tempted more ; more able to endure, As more exposed to... | |
 | Noah Worcester, Henry Ware - 1822 - 506 pages
...influence, and their good receives ; By objects, which might force the soul to abate, Her feeling, render'd more compassionate ! Is placable, because occasions rise So often that demand such sacrifice ; More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure, As tempted more ; more able to endure, As more exposed to... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train ! Turns his necessity to glorious gain ; In face of these doth exercise a power Which is our human nature's highest...occasions rise So often that demand such sacrifice ; More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure, As tempted more ; more able to endure, As more exposed to... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable trail! Turns his necessity to glorious gain ; In fare of these doth exercise a power Which is our human nature's highest dower ; Controls them und subdues , tranunotr*, 354 355 By objects, which might force the soul to abate Her feeling-, render'd... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 536 pages
...dower; Control them and subdue, transmute, bereave Of their bad influence, and1 their good receive; By objects which might force the soul to abate Her feeling, rendered more compassionate ; Are placable because occasions rise So often that demand such sacrifice. More skilful in self-knowledge,... | |
 | 1843
...fear, and bloodshed, — miserable train ! Turns his necessity to glorious gain ; In face of these doth exercise a power Which is our human nature's highest...occasions rise So often that demand such sacrifice ; More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure, As tempted more ; more able to endure, As more exposed to... | |
 | 1850 - 638 pages
...his prime care ; Who, doomed to go in company with Pain, And Fear, and Bloodshed, (miserable train,) Turns his necessity to glorious gain. In face of those...occasions rise So often that demand such sacrifice. More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure As tempted more ; more able to endure, As more exposed to... | |
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