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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Page 81
by William Wordsworth - 1828 - 340 pages
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The New-York Review, Volume 4

1839 - 538 pages
...eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A Traveller between life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate will,...to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, anJ bright With something of an angel-light." Into his pictures of female gracefulness, Wordsworth...
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Woman's Mission

1839 - 168 pages
...this object it must be our next step to inquire. CHAPTER VI. EDUCATION OF WOMEN. And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine; A being...breath, A traveller betwixt life and death; The reason fair, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill, A perfect woman, nobly planned,...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 9

1839 - 880 pages
...firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill ; A perfect Woman, nobly plaim'd, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit...still, and bright With something of an angel light." We have always been much affected by the beauty and simplicity of the following lines of Moore, which...
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the works

mrs hemans - 1839 - 408 pages
...man; and our feelings are in harmony with the poet when he speaks of ' 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.' But man has never regarded woman with respect and true love, except srt far as he has regarded her...
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Woman's Mission

1840 - 188 pages
...object it must be our next step to inquire. 5* CHAPTER VI. EDUCATION OF WOMEN. And now I see, with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine ; A being,...breath, A traveller betwixt life and death ; The reason fair, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill, A perfect woman, nobly planned,...
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Woman Physiologically Considered, as to Mind, Morals, Marriage, Matrimonial ...

Alexander Walker - 1840 - 452 pages
...then might we say, addressing each one of them, in the language of Wordsworth : " And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A being...breath, A traveller betwixt life and death ; The reason fair, the temperate will, Kndurance, foresight, strength, and skill, ./I perfect woman, nobly planned,...
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The New-York Review, Volume 7

1840 - 566 pages
...artificial extravagance of chivalry — the realization of a poet's vision: "A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet...still and bright, With something of an angel light." In no respect is Scott's superiority over ordinary novelists more conspicuous, than in his mode of...
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Selections from the British Poets, Volume 2

1840 - 368 pages
...firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill ; 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. THREE years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, " A lovelier flower On earth was never sown...
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The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The ...

1869 - 406 pages
...transient sorrows, simple wiles. Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. And now I see with eyes serene The very pulse of the machine ; A being breathing...still, and bright With something of an angel light." In 1808 Wordsworth removed from his quiet and modest cottage to a larger house called Allan Bank. While...
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Constance: Or The Merchant's Daughter. A Tale of Our Times ...

John Walker Brown - 1841 - 170 pages
...see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine ; A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveler betwixt life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate...still, and bright, With something of an angel light." WOKDSWOKTHTO THE SECOND EDITION. The call for a second edition of this little work, while it is gratifying...
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