 | William Wordsworth - Superexlibris - 1871 - 630 pages
...and for good ! Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blow, and waters run, Strength to the brave, and Power, and Deity ; Yet...themselves are nothing ! One decree , Spake laws to fkcm, and said that by the soul/ Only, the Nations shall be great and free. / THOUGHT OF A HRITON ON... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - Christianity - 1871 - 210 pages
...be good or not. We worship railroads, steam, coal, as if these made a nation's greatness, forgetting that — " by the soul Only the nations shall be great and free." • We worship wealth, as men have done in all ages, in spite of the voices of all the wise, only perhaps... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pages
...! What mightiness for evil and for good I liven so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blow, and waters roll. Strength to the brave,...the soul Only the nations shall be great and free ! THOUGHT OF A BRITON ON THE SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND. Two voices are there ; one is of the sea,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1872 - 826 pages
...invasion, not to place too much reliance on the " barrier flood" which separated them from France : . . . . Winds blow and waters roll Strength to the brave,...the soul Only, the nations shall be great and free. But if for a moment Wordsworth fears for England and feels for her " as a lover or a child," he acknowledges... | |
 | John Dennis - Sonnets, English - 1873 - 280 pages
...there ! What mightiness for evil and for good ! Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blow, and waters roll, Strength to the brave,...the soul Only, the nations shall be great and free. WU.LMM ' WORDS- | WORTH. 1770 — 1850. LONDON, 1802. O FRIEND ! I know not which way I must look For... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 600 pages
...there ! What mightiness for evil and for good! Even so doth God protect us, if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blow, and waters roll Strength to the brave,...the soul Only, the Nations shall be great and free. WORDSWORTH. THE PULLEY. WHEN God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, " Let... | |
 | T. LINDSEY ASPLAND - 1874 - 492 pages
...there ! What mightiness for evil and for good ! Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blow and waters roll, Strength to the brave,...the soul Only the nations shall be great and free. Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland. Two voices are there — one is of the sea,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 pages
...there ! What mightiness for evil and for good ! Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blow, and waters roll, Strength to the brave,...the soul Only, the Nations shall be great and free. THOUGHT OF A BRITON' OH THE SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND. Two Voices are there ; one is of the sea, One... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 588 pages
...! What mightiness for evil and for good ! Even so doth God protect us, if we ho Virtuous and wise. Winds blow, and waters roll Strength to the brave,...laws to them, and said, that by the soul Only, the Natious shall be great and free. WORDSWOBTH. THE PULLEY. WHEN God at first made man. Having a glass... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...became friends, so disasters of all kinds, as sickness, offence, poverty, prove benefactors : — " Winds blow and waters roll Strength to the brave,...and power and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing." The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not... | |
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Was like a lake, or river bright and fair, A span of waters ; yet what power is there ! What mightiness for evil and for good ! Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blow, and waters roll, Strength to the brave, and power, and... 
