 | George Herbert - 1871 - 362 pages
...Apart, — like glow-worms on a summer night: Or lonely tapers, when from far they fling A guiding ray; or seen, like stars on high, Satellites burning in a lucid ring." * « Wordsworth, IT. 131. THE TEMPLE. THE DEDICATION. LORD, my first fruits present themselves to Thee... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pages
...Apart, like glow-worms on a summer night ; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray ; or seen, like stars on high, Satellites burning in...a lucid ring Around meek Walton's heavenly memory. SACHEVERELL. A SUDDEN conflict rises from the swell Of a proud slavery met by tenets strained In liberty's... | |
 | John Dennis - 1873 - 280 pages
...Apart, like glow-worms on a summer night ; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray; or seen — like stars on high, Satellites burning...a lucid ring Around meek Walton's heavenly memory. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 1770—1850. ENGLAND AND SWITZERLAND, 1802. Two Voices are there ; one is of the... | |
 | Horae, Henry Holmes Joy - 1873 - 374 pages
...Apart — like glow-worms on a summer night; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray ; or seen like stars on high, Satellites burning in a lucid ring." Melchthal, in " William Tell," thus speaks of his father, whose eyes Stauffacher had ordered to be... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1875 - 716 pages
...Citizen. Oh could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die ! Mcthinks their very Names shine still and bright, Apart —...lucid ring, Around meek WALTON'S heavenly memory." 2 A critic in the Quarterly Review 3 has thus spoken of the same work : — " Izaak Walton, in the... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1875 - 728 pages
...Apart — like glow-worms on a summer night ; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray ; or seen — like stars on high, Satellites burning...a lucid ring Around meek Walton's heavenly memory. PERSECUTION OF THE SCOTTISH COVENANTERS. WHEN Alpine Vales threw forth a suppliant cry, The majesty... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1877 - 478 pages
...Apart, like glow-worms on a summer night ; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray ; or seen, like stars on high, Satellites burning in...Around meek Walton's heavenly memory. WORDSWORTH. TO THE OOUNTESS OF OTJMBEELABD. 1 HE that of such a height hath built his mind, And rear'd the dwelling... | |
 | English authors - 1880 - 178 pages
...Apart, like glow-worms on a summer night ; Or lovely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray ; or seen, like stars on high, Satellites burning in...a lucid ring Around meek Walton's heavenly memory. (Ecclesiastical Sketches.) WRITTEN UPON A BLANK LEAF IN " THE COMPLETE ANGLER." While flowing rivers... | |
 | David M. Main - 1880 - 490 pages
...Apart — like glow-worms on a summer night ; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray ; or seen — like stars on high, Satellites burning...a lucid ring Around meek Walton's heavenly memory. ccxxx MUTABILITY. "T^ROM low to high doth dissolution climb, •^ And sink from high to low, along... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 pages
...bright ; Apart, hkeglow-wormsonasummer night; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray ; or seen, like stars on high, Satellites burning in...a lucid ring Around meek Walton's heavenly memory. SACHEVERELL. A SUDDEN conflict rises from the swell Of a proud slavery met by tenets strained In liberty's... | |
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O could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die ! Methinks their very names shine still and bright ; Apart, — like glowworms on a summer night ; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray ; or seen, like... 
