For passions linked to forms so fair And stately needs must have their share Of noble sentiment. But ill he lived, much evil saw With men to whom no better law Nor better life was known ; Deliberately and undeceived Those wild men's vices he received,... Ways and means - Page 86by Clara Lucas Balfour - 1868Full view - About this book
| William Wordsworth - 1805 - 262 pages
...known ; Deliberately and undeceived Those wild men's vices he received, And gave them back his own. His genius and his moral frame Were thus impaired,...became The slave of low desires : A Man who without self-controul Would seek what the degraded soul Unworthily admires. And yet he with no feigned delight... | |
| Readings - English poetry - 1843 - 466 pages
...known; Deliberately and undeceived, Those wild men's vices he received, And gave them back his own. His genius and his moral frame Were thus impaired, and he became The slave of low desires: A matt who, without self-control, Would seek what the degraded soul Unworthily admires. Aad yet he with... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1878 - 846 pages
...known ; Deliberately, and undeceived, Those wild men's vices he received, And gave them back his own. His genius and his moral frame Were thus impaired, and he became The slave of low desires : A Han who without self-control Would seek what the degraded soul Unworthily admires. And yet he with... | |
| Clara Lucas Balfour - 1882 - 172 pages
...in a low tone, but with a passionate fervour. Wringing her hands from his grasp, and rushing nway, she left him standing, half paralyzed, just as a merry...XIV. DOWNWARD. His genius and his moral frame Were tbus impaired, and he became The slave of low desires ; A man who, without self-control, Would seek... | |
| William Wordsworth, John Morley (viscount) - English poetry - 1890 - 1012 pages
...known ; Deliberately, and undeceived, Those wild men's vices he received, And gave them back his own. His genius and his moral frame Were thus impaired, and he became The slave of low desires : Л Man who without self-control Would seek what the degraded soul Unworthily admires. And yet he... | |
| Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 952 pages
...known; Deliberately, and undeceived, Those wild men's vices he received, And gave them back his own. 150 win) without self-control Would seek what tlie degraded soul Unworthily admires. And yet he with no... | |
| |