 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...us are merciful— and they 85 Yet further may relent ; for mightier far Than strength of nerve and sinew, or the sway Of magic, potent over sun and star,...though his favourite seat be feeble woman's breast. 90 ''But if thou goest, 1 follow " "Peace," he said— She looked upon him and was calmed and cheered... | |
 | Robert Laird Collier - Sermons, American - 1872 - 242 pages
...of this man. "He that dwelleth in God, dwelleth in love." " Mightier far Than strength of nerve and sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star,...Is love, though oft to agony distrest, And though its favorite seat be gentle woman's breast." This unseen power of love is eternal ; the unseen forces... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - Slavery - 1872 - 694 pages
...AUTHOR.1 " Mightier far strength of nerve and sinew, or the iway Of magic, potent over sun and star, Ii love, though oft to agony distrest, And though his favourite seat be feeble woman's breast" " Dai lit sas Loos del Schoncn auf der erde." WORDSWORTH. SCHILLKR. ARABELLA STUART. ["Till LADY ARABELLA,"... | |
 | Henry Southgate - Love poetry - 1873 - 448 pages
...loom. JS Knowles. ITS POTENCY. Mightier far Than strength of nerve and sinew, or the sway Of magie, potent over sun and star, Is Love ; though oft to...favourite seat be feeble woman's breast. Wordsworth. CULMINATES IN BLISS. WHEN it doth reach A white, unflickering, fear,consuming glow, And, knowing it... | |
 | Anna Brownell Jameson, Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Christian art and symbolism - 1874 - 474 pages
...never left the scaffold, during the three days and three nights of his protracted torture ; — For, mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the...though his favourite seat be feeble woman's breast M INDEXES. I. NAMES OF ARTISTS (EMBRACING PAINTERS, SCULPTORS, AND ENGRAVERS). II. GALLERIES, CHURCHES,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...and Home! To a Shylarh. , The Gods approve ' The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul. Laodamia, Mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the...love, though oft to agony distrest, And though his favorite seat be feeble woman's breast. nut. He spake of love, such love as Spirits feel In worlds... | |
 | T. LINDSEY ASPLAND - 1874 - 492 pages
...youth 'mid youthful peers. ' The gods to us are merciful — and they Yet further may relent : for mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the...over sun and star, Is love — though oft to agony distress'd ; And though his favourite seat be feeble woman's breast. ' But if thou goest, I follow... | |
 | Ursula (pseud.) - 1874 - 370 pages
...great deal of life ; and we all know that lookers-on see more of the play than the actors. CHAPTER XL " Mightier far Than strength of nerve, or sinew, or...the sway Of magic potent over sun and star Is love, tho' oft to agony distrest, And though his favourite seat be feeble woman's breast." WOKDSWORTH. "... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1874 - 96 pages
...to us are merciful, and they 85 Yet further may relent : for mightier far Than strength of nerve and sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star, Is love, though oft to agony distrest, 89 And though his favourite seat be feeble woman's breast. " But if thou goest, I follow—" " Peace,"... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...alas ! is human fate! I whom nor avarice nor pleasures move, Yet must myself be made a slave to love. Mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the...favourite seat be feeble woman's breast. WORDSWORTH. Ladies, whose love is constant as the wind; Cits, who prefer a guinea to mankind. YOUNG. The young... | |
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Yet further may relent : for mightier far Than strength of nerve and sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star, Is love, though oft to agony distrest, And though his favourite seat be feeble woman's breast. But if thou goest, I follow... 
