 We are what suns and winds and waters make us The mountains are our sponsors, and the rills Fashion and win their nursling with their smiles. But where the land is dim from tyranny, There tiny pleasures occupy the place Of glories and of duties ; as the...  the edinburgh review, of critical journal - Page 422by charles black - 1850Full view - About this book
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1824 - 424 pages
...much, and in spirit with all that has gone before, may stand here as a voluntary to close the work. WE are what suns and winds and waters make us; The...place Of glories and of duties; as the feet Of fabled faeries when-the sun goes down Trip o'er the grass where wrestlers strove by day. Then Justice, called... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 704 pages
...Till thou, Astrrea ! though behind the sire's Broad egis, treinbledst on thy heavenly throne. " ч We are what suns and winds and waters make us ; The...place Of glories and of duties ; as the feet Of fabled faeries when the sun goes down Trip o'er the grass where wrestlers strove by day. Then Justice, call'd... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 696 pages
...toreh, Till thou, Astrsea ! though behind the sire's Broad egis, trembledst on thy heavenly throne. XV. We are what suns and winds and waters make us ; The...the land is dim from tyranny, There tiny pleasures oeeupy the plaee Of glories and of duties ; as the feet Of fabled faeries when the sun goes down Trip... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1847 - 306 pages
...they call you ; I am fain to rest ; Leave me, and ask for no more song to-day." XXXI. REGENERATION. We are what suns and winds and waters make us ; The...place Of glories and of duties ; as the feet Of fabled faeries when the sun goes down Trip o'er the grass where wrestlers strove by day. Then Justice, call'd... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 566 pages
...This fine one occurs in the last of his Hellenics, p. 486, vol. ii. of his uniform edition : — " We are what suns, and winds, and waters make us ;...our sponsors, and the rills Fashion and win their nurslings with their smiles. But where the land is dim from tyranny, There tiny pleasures occupy the... | |
 | William Mountford - 1852 - 542 pages
...Blessings on them, whether in this world or the next ! Blessings on them from the Highest ! CHAPTER XXIV. We are what suns, and winds, and waters make us. The...Fashion and win their nursling with their smiles. WS LANDOB. The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark pf the unfathomed... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1853 - 724 pages
...torch, Till thou, Astrica ! though behind the sire's Broad egis, trembledst on thy heavenly throne. We are what suns and winds and waters make us; The...pleasures occupy the place Of glories and of duties ; ая the feet Of fabled faeries when the sun goes down Trip o'er the grass where wrestlers strove... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 610 pages
...Hellenics." The lines have always appeared to us among the most powerful which Mr. Landor has written : — " We are what suns, and winds, and waters make us; The...sponsors, and the rills Fashion and win their nursling to their smiles ; But where the land is dim from tyranny, There tiny pleasures occupy the place Of... | |
 | William Howitt - 1856 - 558 pages
...occurs in the last of his Hellenics, p. 486, vol. ii. of his uniform edition : — " We are what sans, and winds, and waters make us ; The mountains are our sponsors, and the rills Fashion and win their nurslings with their smiles. But where the land is dim from tyranny, There tiny pleasures occupy the... | |
 | Parke Godwin - 1860 - 528 pages
...general mind lost the spur and the solace of noble endeavor. " We are," writes a great poet — "We arc what suns, and winds, and waters make us; The mountains...their smiles. But where the land is dim from tyranny, 1 Comp. Fauricl (ubi sup., ti, e. ' Code Theodos., iii., 3, ct xiii., 3. 10). 4 Sid. Apoll., pasiim.... | |
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