 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...Storm. I 311 J stopp'd, and said with inly-muttered voice, " It doth not love the shower, nor seek the cold : This neither is its courage nor its choice, But its necessity in being old. The sunshine may not bless it, nor the dew ; It cannot help itself in its decay ; Stiff in its members,... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...Storm. i I stopp'd, and said with inly-muttered voice, " It doth not love the shower, nor seek the cold : This neither is its courage nor its choice, But its necessity in being old. The sunshine may not bless it, nor the dew ; It cannot help itself in its decay ; Stiff in its members,... | |
 | George William Francis - 1839 - 236 pages
...storm. " I stopped — and said, with inly-muttered voice, ' It doth not love the shower, nor seek the cold. This neither is its courage, nor its choice, But its necessity in being old ! " CELERY-LEAVED CROW-FOOT. Ranunculus sceteratus. Plate 8—Fig. 4. Leaves smooth, three-lobed. Calyx... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...and storm. I stopped, and said with inly-muttered voice, " It doth not love the shower, nor seek the cold : This neither is its courage nor its choice, But its necessity in being old. The sunshine may not cheer it, nor the dew ; It cannot help itself in its decay ; Stiff in its members,... | |
 | George Luxford, Edward Newman - 1846 - 388 pages
...Wordsworth always, as of the daffodils anc! the celandine. ' It doth not love the shower nor seek the cold. This neither is its courage nor its choice,...without some slight perception or acknowledgment of joyousness in breathless things, as most certainly there are none but feel instinctive delight in the... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1848 - 266 pages
...Wordsworth always, as of the daffodils, and the celandine. " It doth not love the shower, nor seek the cold. This neither is its courage, nor its choice,...necessity in being old," and so all other great poets' ; nor do I believe that any mind, however rude, is without some slight perception or acknowledgment... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1856 - 252 pages
...Wordsworth always, as of the daffodils, and the celandine : " It doth not love the shower, nor seek the cold. This neither is its courage, nor its choice,...necessity in being old : " and so all other great poets ' ; nor do I believe that any mind, however rude, is without some slight perception or acknowledgment... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1856 - 252 pages
...is its courage, nor its choice, But its necessity in being old :" and so all other great poets ' ; nor do I believe that any mind, however rude, is without some slight perception or acknowledgment of 1 Compare Milton : " They at her coming sprung, And, touched by her fair tendance, gladlier grew."... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 pages
...and storm. I stopped, and said with inly-muttered voice, " It doth not love the shower, nor seek the cold : This neither is its courage nor its choice, But its necessity in being old. * The rural heart of the old man, preserved even amid the din and distraction of London, is admirably... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1858 - 550 pages
...and storm. I stopp'd, and said, with inly-mutter'd voice, " It doth not love the shower, nor seek the cold : This neither is its courage nor its choice, But its necessity in being old. " The SUT shine may not bless it, nor the dew ; It cannot help itself in its decay; Stiff in its members,... | |
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It doth not love the shower, nor seek the cold : This neither is its courage nor its choice, But its necessity in being old. " The sunshine may not cheer it, nor the dew ; It cannot help itself in its decay ; Stiff in its members, withered, changed of... 
