...and he was no sportsman ; his gentle heart, at no time of his life, needed Wordsworth's admonition, Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels. The country had little to tempt him abroad. " We have neither woods," he says, " nor commons, nor pleasant...

...and he was no sportsman ; his gentle heart, at no time of his life, needed Wordsworth's admonition, Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels. The country had little to tempt him abroad. " We have neither woods," he says, " nor commons, nor pleasant...

...constitute the true glory of a nation, as well as of individuals. It is a wise maxim in personal conduct, " Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing (hat feels." And it is yet more greatly wise and benevolent, in national policy, not to found the exaltation...

...we may oppose to the aberrations of the venerable Walton the philosophical maxim of Wordsworth — them that heareth me ; Then though my songs be somewhat plain, And toucheth some that If this observation falls into the opposite extreme (seeing that it would, if rigidly interpreted,...

...agree with the poet of Rydal Mount, in his touching admonition of natural piety and the humane resolve Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels ? Let this problem, of ethical taste or sentiment remain for the deliberate meditation of refined minds....

...due course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. She leaves these objeets to a slow decay, That what we are, and have been,...pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels." I800. SONG AT THE FEAST OF BROUGHAM CASTLE, UPON THE RESTORATION OF LORD CLIFFORD, THE 8HEPHEBD.TO...

...course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. She leaves these objects to a alow decay, That what we are, and have been, may be known ; But at the coining of the milder day, These monuments »hall all be overgrown. One lesson, Shepherd, let us two...

...Nature, in duo course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. She leaves these objects to a slow decay, That what we are, and have...she shows, and what conceals ; Never to blend our pleasures or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels." ••MAY I COME UP1" '< May 1...

...Nature, in due course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. She leaves these objects to a slow decay, That what we are, and have...divide, Taught both by what she shows, and what conceals ; Vever to blend our pleasures or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels." "MAY I COME...

...affecting points of its relation to mankind has been one of the most daring experiments of his muse : " One lesson, shepherd, let us two divide, Taught both...pride, With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels. It is the common and universal in Nature that he loves to celebrate. The rare and startling seldom...