High is our calling, Friend! Creative Art (Whether the instrument of words she use Or pencil pregnant with ethereal hues) Demands the service of a mind and heart, Though sensitive, yet, in their weakest part, Heroically fashioned — to infuse Faith in... The Sonnets of William Wordsworth - Page 19by William Wordsworth - 1899 - 285 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1876 - 592 pages
...lines when every other vestige of his struggles and his sorrows has passed away. That spiritcall — ' to infuse Faith in the whispers of the lonely Muse, While the whole world seems adverse to desert ;' will be heard by other Haydons yet unborn, and they may learn ' Still to be strenuous for the bright... | |
| William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...— Creative Art (Whether the instrument of words she use, Or pencil pregnant with ethereal hues,) Demands the service of a mind and heart, Though sensitive,...bright reward. And in the soul admit of no decay, Itrook no continuance of weak-mindedness — Great is the glory, for the strife is bard ! n8 h«e,... | |
| English literature - 1834 - 590 pages
...Whether the instrument of words the use, Or pencil pregnant with ethereal hues, Demands the service of u mind and heart, Though sensitive, yet in their weakest...While the whole world seems adverse to desert ; And О ! when Nature sinks, as oft she may. Through long-lived pressure of obscure distress, Still to be... | |
| George Washington Bethune - Art - 1840 - 64 pages
...(Whether the instrument of words she use Or pencil pregnant with ethereal hues) * Appendix (F.) 38 Demands the service of a mind and heart, Though sensitive,...of obscure distress, Still to be strenuous for the high reward, And in the soul admit of no decay, Brook no continuance of weak mindedness — Great is... | |
| Periodicals - 1844 - 276 pages
...and heart, '1 iiough sensitive, yel, in thtfir weaken pnrt, Heroically fashioned — to inJuse Faitb in the whispers of the lonely Muse, While the whole world seems adverse to desert. VOL. XXIV And, oh! when Suture sinks, a* oft she may, Through lung-lived prtiSaure of obscure dis Still... | |
| William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...— Creative Art (Whether the instrument of words she use, Or pencil pregnant with ethereal hues,) Demands the service of a mind and heart, Though sensitive,...weakest part, Heroically fashioned to infuse Faith hi the whispers of the lonely Muse, While the whole world seems adverse to desert. And, oh ! when Nature... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1848 - 252 pages
...making common cause with him, " while the whole world seems adverse to desert ;" admonishing him " still to be strenuous for the bright reward, and in the soul admit of no decay ; " and, long after, when the poet had, by a wiser perseverance, gradually created the taste which... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1848 - 342 pages
...own ; making common cause with him, "while the whole world seems adverse to desert;" admonishing him "still to be strenuous for the bright reward, and in the soul admit of no decay;" and, long after, when the poet had, by a wiser perseverance, gradually created the taste which appreciated... | |
| Elias Lyman Magoon - Conduct of life - 1849 - 300 pages
...example of perseverance did he leave the world ! " When Nature sinks, as oft she may, Through long liv'd pressure of obscure distress, Still to be strenuous,...for the bright reward, And in the soul, admit of no decny — Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness — Great is the glory, for the strife is great !"... | |
| Charles Lamb - Authors, English - 1849 - 270 pages
...making common cause with him, " while the whole world seems adverse to desert ;" admonishing him " still to be strenuous for the bright reward, and in the soul admit of no decay ;" and, long after, when the poet had, by a wiser perseverance, gradually created the taste which appreciated... | |
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