 A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller betwixt life and death. The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill, A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a spirit still, and bright...  Memoirs of the life, character, and labours of the rev. John Smith, late of ... - Page 230by Richard Treffry - 1833 - 356 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1843 - 600 pages
...Endurance, foresight, strength and skill, A perfect wom >n, nobly planned. To warn, to comfort and command ; And yet a spirit still and bright, With something of an angel light.* How then are we to realize this beautiful description — to imbody this noble idea 1 Even by educating... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1843 - 342 pages
...described in the following lines r " A perfect woman, nobly plann'd To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a spirit still and bright, With something of an angel light." WORDS WORTH. There was Anne Killigrew, according to Wood, " A grace for beauty and a muse for wit."... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1843 - 184 pages
...Endurance, foresight, strength and skill ; A perfect woman, nobly planned To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light. WORDSWORTH. MERCY. THE quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1844 - 586 pages
...with the freshest modesty;— " A perfect woman, nobly planned, t . To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a spirit still and bright, With something of an angel light." ., - , • CHAPTER VII. 1 to bore his great commission in his look : But sweetly tempered awe ; and... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill, A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light. II. LUCY. THREE years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, " A lovelier flower On earth was... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...foresight, strength, and skill, A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; bed scholars only, this immense And glorious work of fine intelligen [Lina Computed a few mile* above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the banks of the Wye.] Tlntern Abbey.... | |
 | Theology - 636 pages
...she answer the description, — "A perfect woman, nobly plann'd, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a spirit, still, and bright, With something of an angel light." Nothing seems so to welcome the duties of life as humility, and nothing seems so to ennoble, as nothing... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1847 - 606 pages
...when we read in Wordsworth of — " The perfect woman, nobly planned To warn, to comfort, and command, And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light." The same recognition of spiritual beauty, the same reverent faith in woman's worth, which produced... | |
 | Life - 1844 - 308 pages
...blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. A perfect woman nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a spirit still and bright, With something of an angel light.' ' THE fracas just related, had rendered us objects of such general attention, that after lounging a... | |
 | Edinburgh tales, Christian Isobel Johnstone - English literature - 1845 - 458 pages
...daily food ; For transient sorrows, snnple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light. nordtworth. ТЬетe is but one shamed that never was TYRERAGII is a tract of country on the north-western... | |
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