 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pągines
...half-parlour fire, And listen to the flapping of the flame, Or kettle, whispering it's faint undersong. " Yet life," you say, " is life ; we have seen and see,...Sound sense, and love itself, and mirth and glee, Are foster'd by the comment and the gibe." Even be it so : yet still among your tribe, Our daily world's... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 pągines
...half-parlour fire. And listen to the flapping of the flame, Or kettle, whispering it's faint undersong. 119 " Yet life," you say, " is life ; we have seen and see....Sound sense, and love itself, and mirth and glee. Are foster*d by the comment and the gibe." Even be it so : yet still among your tribe, Our daily world's... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pągines
...cottage-fire, And I], i, -ii to the flapping of the flame, Or kettle, whispering its faint undersong. "Vet s * X * Kirn be it so: yet still among your trihc, Our daily world's true Worldlings, rank not me ! Children... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 pągines
...whispering its faint undersong. CONTINUED. « Yet )ife,»you&ay, « is life; we have seen and nee, And with a living pleasure we describe; And fits of...Sound sense, and love, itself, and mirth and glee Arc fostered by the comment and the gibe." Even he it so : yet still among your tribe, Our daily world's... | |
 | Horace Binney Wallace - 1838 - 264 pągines
...there is no solid wisdom but in real piety.' " CHAPTER XI. " Fits of sprightly malice do but bribe . -t The languid mind into activity, Sound sense, and love,...and glee, Are fostered by the comment and the gibe." WORDSWORTH. I HAD accepted an invitation to a dance at Mrs. . It was Jate when I entered the rooms,... | |
 | 1839 - 446 pągines
...People had freed their right hand, and torn the bandage from their eyes. »**»*»*» PERSONAL TALK. " Yet life," you say, " is life ; we have seen and see,...of sprightly malice do but bribe The languid mind mto activity. Sound sense, and love itself, and mirth and glee Are fostered by the comment and the... | |
 | Johnstone - 1840 - 386 pągines
...and their neighbours' affairs. But Wordsworth admits a little expostulation on this subject : — " Yet life you say, ' is life ; we have seen and see, And with a lively pleasure we describe ; And fits of sprightly malice do but bribe The languid mind into activity.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pągines
...cottage-fire, And listen to the flapping of the flame, Or kettle whispering its faint undersong. " Yet life," you say, "is life ; we have seen and see,...sprightly malice do but bribe The languid mind into aetivity. Sound sense, and love itself, and mirth and glee Are fostered by the comment and the gibe."... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 pągines
...cottage-fire, And listen to the flapping of the flame, Or kettle whispering its faint undersong. " Yet life," you say, "is life ; we have seen and see, And with a living pleasure we describe ; And fita of sprightly malice do but bribe The languid mind into activity. Sound sense, and love itself,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 378 pągines
...cottage-fire, And listen to the flapping of the flame, Or kettle whispering its faint undersong. XXXVIII. CONTINUED. " YET life," you say, " is life : we have...tribe. Our daily world's true Worldlings, rank not me 1 Children are blest, and powerful ; their world lies More justly balanced ; partly at their feet,... | |
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is life; we have seen and see, And with a living pleasure we describe ; And fits of sprightly malice do but bribe The languid mind into activity. Sound sense, and love itself, and mirth and glee Are, fostered by the comment and the gibe. 
