Nature never did betray The heart that loved her ; 'tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy : for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts,... Men I have known - Page 476by William Jerdan - 1866 - 409 pagesFull view - About this book
![The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The ... The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The ...](http://bks3.books.google.com/books?id=SyYEAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | ...his new spouse, Natural Religion, while he turns his back upon the church, exclaim, " Nature never did betray The heart that loved her ; 'tis her privilege Through all the years of this our hfe, to lead From joy to joy : for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness... | |
 | Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury - History - 1841
...tearfully, for she felt herself affected, the following favorite lines of Wordsworth.— " Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this one life, to lead From joy to joy ; for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With... | |
 | William Hone - Reference - 1841
...the social and benevolent affections, and be lovers of nature, and of one another; for " Nature never did betray The heart that loved her : 'tis her privilege Through all the years of tliis our life to lead From joy to joy ; for she can so inform The mind that a within us, so impress... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1887
...companion and teacher, it is hardly a personification when he says toward the close of the same poem : " This prayer I make. Knowing that Nature never did...feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary... | |
 | Eliza Cook, Mary Botham Howitt, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, Gould (Miss.) - 1843 - 172 pages
...find A lesson taught by Him,who loved all human kind. VERY. HOLY INFLUENCE OF NATURE.* NATURE never did betray The heart that loved her ; 'tis her privilege,...feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1843
...wild eyes. Oh ! yet a little while, May I behold in thee what I was once, My dear, dear sister ! and this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did...years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy : for ihe can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - Literary Criticism - 1843 - 330 pages
...Olmstead. Whewell's History of the Inductive Sciences. 6. CHEMISTRY AND NATURAL HISTORY. " Nature never did betray The heart that loved her ; 'tis her privilege, Through all the yean of this our life, to lead From joy to joy : for she can so inform The mind that is within us,... | |
 | Robert Carruthers - 1844
...wild eyes. Oh ! yet a little while May I behold in tbee what 1 was once, My dear, dear sister ! And . The hymn on Chamouni is equally lofty and brilliant....'Geneviève' is a pure and exquisite love-poem, without tongue.% Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844
...wild eyes. Oh ! yet a little while May I behold in thee what 1 was once, My dear, dear sister ! And o have ever experienced those emotions, the sleeping,...immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the tongue*, Hash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all... | |
 | 1850
...as large as an English county. The present poet laureate of England has thus written : 'Tis Nature's privilege, Through all the years of this our life,...feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, not the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary... | |
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