 | George Barrell Cheever - Alps - 1847 - 382 pages
...kneel down to admire and gather them, of Wordsworth's very beautiful lines, very memorable : — " The primal duties shine aloft like stars, , The charities that soothe, and heal, and hless, Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers." Or better still, they remind one of Cowper's... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - American literature - 1848 - 382 pages
...so was she taught the secrets of the universe from Wordsworth's poems. He pointed out to her how " The primal duties shine aloft like stars, The charities...and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man—like flowers." • He read her lectures about the daisy, the robin red-breast, and the waterfall.... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1849 - 406 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 rest! Believe it not: The primal duties shine aloft—like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man—like... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 672 pages
...and dark ; Hard to be won, and only by a few ; Strange, should He deal herein with nice respect.1!, And frustrate all the rest ! Believe it not : The...; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, THE EXCURSION. Are scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers. The generous inclination, the just... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1850 - 620 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...not ; The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; / t „ .<The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man — like... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1850 - 764 pages
...qualities From common understanding \ leaving truth And virtue difficult, abstruse, and dark; Hard to be ace ! Whose strong right hand has ever been Their...heads Beneath thy forming hand, Before this pondero Tile charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scatter'd at the feet of man, like flowers; The... | |
 | 1850 - 682 pages
...have your reward, — the highest reward which a loving heart seeks, — to be loved in return. " Tho primal duties shine aloft, like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and hless, Are scattered at the feet of man like dowers,— The generous inclination, the first rule, Kind... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1851 - 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...The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scatttered at the feet of Man — like flowers. The generous inclination, the just rule, Kind wishes,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 750 pages
...qualities From common understanding; leaving truth And virtue, difficult, abstruse, and dark ; Hard to be motives, to such end employed • Philosophers, who,...interests, do yet prize This Soul, and the transc eoothe, and heal, and bless, Arc scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers. The generous inclination,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1852 - 792 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... | |
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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. 
