 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 pages
...laid low. Q Dastard whom such foretaste doth not chear ! We shall exult, if They who rule the land Be Men who hold its many blessings dear, Wise, upright,...they fear, And honour which they do not understand. 152 26. NOTES to the FIRST VOLUME. XOTES. PAGE 1 . — To the Daisy. This PO«B, and two others to... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pages
...be laid low. O Dastard whom such foretaste doth not chear! We shall exult, if They who rule the land Be Men who hold its many blessings dear. Wise, upright,...danger which they fear, And honour which they do not anderstand. 26. A1 0 TES FIRST VOLUME. to tie. NOTES. PAGE 1 . — To the Daisy. This Poem, and two... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1811 - 562 pages
...government of this mighty country, in these momentous times, should be entrusted to men, ' Who talk of danger which they fear, And honour which they do not understand!' • We have been told of die danger, of Lord Wellington and hi* army in language which it is humiliating... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 466 pages
...laid low. O Dastard ! whom such foretaste doth not cheer ! We shall exult, if They, who rule the land, Be Men who hold its many blessings dear, Wise, upright,...they fear, And honour, which they do not understand. WORDSWORTH. JSVf to pave 80. * Anima sapient (says Giordano Bruno, and let the sublime Piety of the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...laid low. O Dastard whom such foretaste doth not cheer I We shall exult, if They who rule the land Be Men who hold its many blessings dear, Wise, upright,...they fear, And honour which they do not understand. 224 x - . ------ - SONNETS DEDICATED TO LIBERTY. SECOND. VOL. II. ON A CELEBRATED EVENT IN ANCIENT... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...not cheer ! We shall exult, if They who rule the land Be Men who hold its many blessings dear, AVise, upright, valiant ; not a venal Band, Who are to judge...they fear, And honour which they do not understand. SONNETS DEDICATED TO LIBERTY. PART SECOND. VOL. II. CELEBRATED EVENT IN ANCIENT HISTORY. A ROHAN Master... | |
 | 1818 - 762 pages
...constitution when there is no danger nigh ; — learning unthinking men, as Wordsworth says, " To speak of danger which they fear, And honour which they do not understand — " Not recollecting that, in the house of which he is the mouthpiece, there have been, and may be,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1820 - 362 pages
...laid low. O Dastard whom such foretaste doth not cheer ! We shall exult, if They who rule the land Be Men who hold its many blessings dear, Wise, upright, valiant ; not a servile Band, Who are to judge of danger which they fear, And honour which they do not understand.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 482 pages
...They who rule the land Be Men who hold its many blessings dear, Wise, upright, valiant ; not a servile Band, Who are to judge of danger which they fear, And honour which they do not understand. ODE. 1. WHO rises on the banks of Seine, binds her temples with the civic wreath ? What joy to read... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...be laid low. O Dastard whom such foretaste doth not cheer! We shall exult, if They who rule the land Be Men who hold its many blessings dear, Wise, upright,...venal Band, Who are to judge of danger which they ' ft-ar, And honour which they do not understand. XXII. September, 1H15. WniLK not a leaf seems faded,—... | |
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That we must stand unpropped, or be laid low. O dastard whom such foretaste doth not cheer! "We shall exult, if they who rule the land Be men who hold its many blessings dear, "Wise, upright, valiant; not a servile band, Who are to judge of danger which... 
