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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. "
The Excursion: A Poem ... - Page 323
by William Wordsworth - 1836 - 374 pages
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Literature and Art

Margaret Fuller - American literature - 1852 - 364 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...Are scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers." He read her lectures about the daisy, the robin red-breast, and the waterfall. He taught her to study...
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Voices of Nature to Her Foster-child, the Soul of Man: A Series of Analogies ...

George Barrell Cheever - Analogy (Religion) - 1852 - 478 pages
...Words worth are Toeautiful, (only that the charities themselves are primal duties also,) where he says, The primal duties shine aloft like stars ; The charities...bless, Are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers. .All nature is possessor of their beauty. Where are they not, in 'whatsoever climate, in whatsoever...
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Beautiful poetry, selected by the ed. of The Critic, Volume 1

Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...endless : The world is wide, these things are small, They may be nothing, but they are all. MILNES. The primal duties shine aloft like stars, The charities that soothe and heat and bless, Lie scatter'd at the feet of men like flowers. WORDSWOBTH. TIME. Time hath laid his...
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Second Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire: Celebrated in Boston, November ...

Sons of New Hampshire - New Hampshire - 1854 - 254 pages
...good city stands preeminent in these labors of love. Here the language of poetry becomes history — " The primal duties shine aloft like stars ; The charities...bless, Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers." Eeligion and learning, churches and colleges, dr.aw upon the funds of this prosperous city, and their...
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Florence Egerton, Or, Sunshine and Shadow

J. Macgowan - 1854 - 382 pages
...whom she was a great favourite. CHAPTER XIII. DUTY AND PLEASURE. " THE primal duties shine aloft as stars, The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers." WORDSWORTJI. "FLORENCE," said Eliza one day about a year after Gertrude's return from England, " do...
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The Alps, Switzerland, and the North of Italy ...

Charles Williams - Alps - 1854 - 662 pages
...— " The primal duties shine aloft like stars," the beautiful words that follow are no less so : " The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers." There is no sphere so lowly, as there is none too lofty, to forbid the culture and the exercise of...
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Second Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire: Celebrated in Boston, November ...

Sons of New Hampshire - New Hampshire - 1854 - 254 pages
...good city stands preeminent in these labors of love. Here the language of poctry becomes history — " The primal duties shine aloft like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are seattered at the feet of man like flowers." Religion and learning, churches and colleges, draw upon...
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The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1854 - 786 pages
...Strange, should He deal herein with nice respt-cis. i And frustrate all the rest ! Believe it not: C32 The primal duties shine aloft — like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are fcatttered at the feet of Man — like flowers." The generous inclination, the just rule, Kind wishes,...
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Poems of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1855 - 704 pages
...307 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, 1 Are scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers. The generous inclination, the just rule, / Kind...
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Dunellan manse; or Times and trials of the Disruption, Volume 439

Sarah Elizabeth B. Patterson - 1855 - 362 pages
...ought to be few and far between to that happy home. CHAPTER XIII. A LOVE OFFEBING FROM THE POOR. " The charities that soothe and heal and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers." WOBDSWOBTB. " IT'S Miss Mary I'm wanting, — it's the bonnie bird Miss Mary, that they hae driven...
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