 | John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 496 pages
...qualities From common understanding ; leaving truth And virtue, difficult, abstruse and dark ; Hard to be won, and only by a few:— Strange, should he deal...the rest! Believe it not: The primal duties shine aloft—like stars; The charities, that sooth, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man—like... | |
 | Theology - 1836 - 532 pages
...passive thing employed As a brute mean, without acknowledgment Of common right or interest in the end. The primal duties shine aloft, like stars ; The charities...bless, Are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers. Say, what is honor? Tis tho finest sense Of justice which the human mind can frame, Intent each lurking... | |
 | 1886 - 400 pages
...with the best truths of life. The best truths are the simplest — never difficult, abstruse and dark. The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; The...Are scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers. Critics there are who peer into holes of the ground, or search under a microscope for Shakespeare's... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - United States - 1837 - 442 pages
...probabilities; and lost at last in the haze of possibility, bright with the meridian sun of faith. To him " The primal duties shine aloft, like stars : The charities that soothe and heal and bless Lie scattered at the feet of man, like flowers." But of all this he can, for some time, express nothing.... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - English poetry - 1838 - 758 pages
...qualities From common understanding ; leaving truth And virtue difficult, abstruse, and dark ; Hard to be e, V scatter'd at the feet of man, like flowers; The generous inclination, the just rule, Kind wishes, and... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 790 pages
...qualities From common understanding ; leaving truth And virtue difficult, abstruse, and dark ¡ Hard to be won, and only by a few ; Strange, should he deal herein...The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scatter'd at the feet of man, like flowers; The generous inclination, the just rule, Kind wishes, and... | |
 | George Ripley - Philosophy, French - 1838 - 400 pages
...qualities From common understanding; leaving truth And virtue, difficult, abstruse, and dark ; Hard to be won, and only by a few ; Strange, should he deal herein...all the rest ! Believe it not : The primal duties shine'aloft — like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet... | |
 | 1841 - 884 pages
...unpcrceived. Wordsworth — the poet of the cottage, as well as of the philosopher — tells us that — ' The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are...like flowers — The generous inclination, the just will, Kind wishes, and good actions, and pure thoughts. " These lines contain a moral sufficiently... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 750 pages
...qualities From common understanding; leaving truth And virtue difficult, abstruse, and dark; Hard to be won, and only by a few; Strange, should he deal herein...nice respects, And frustrate all the rest! Believe it nott The primal duties shine aloft, like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are... | |
 | English life - 1840 - 358 pages
...ever, personal prerogatives must be sustained by personal merit." Morality of Politics, by M. Dros. " The primal duties shine aloft like stars ; — The charities, that soothe and heal and bless, Lie scattered at the feet of men like flowers." WORDSWOHTH, THE Earl and Countess Clarondel, and those... | |
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The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers. 
