 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pages
...As more expos'd to suffering and distress ; Thence, also, more alive to tenderness. 32 Tis he whose law is reason ; who depends Upon that law as on the...guard against worse ill, And what in quality or act is best Doth seldom on a right foundation rest. He fixes good on good alone, ami owes To virtue every... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 pages
...endure, As more expos'd to suffering and distress ; Thence, also, more alive to tenderness. Tis he whose law is reason; who depends Upon that law as on the...are tempted still To evil for a guard against worse 111, And what in quality or act is best Doth seldom on a right foundation rest, He fixes good on good... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...endure, As more exposed to suffering and distress ; Thence, also, more alive to tenderness. Tis he whose law is reason; who depends. Upon that law as on the...guard against worse ill, And what in quality or act is best Doth seldom on a right foundation rest, He fixes good on good alone, and owes To virtue every... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...endure, As more exposed to suffering and distress ; Thence, also, more alive to tenderness. Tis he whose law is reason; who depends Upon that law as on the...guard against worse ill, And what in quality or act is best Doth seldom on a right foundation rest, He fixes good on good alone, and owes To virtue every... | |
 | Noah Worcester, Henry Ware - 1822 - 506 pages
...endure, As more exposed to suffering and distress ; Thence also more alive to tenderness. 'Tis he whose law is reason ; who depends Upon that law, as on the...guard against worse ill, And what in quality or act is best Doth seldom on a right foundation rest, He fixes good on good alone, and owes To virtue every... | |
 | 1822 - 486 pages
...endure, As more exposed to suffering and distress; Thence also more alive to tenderness 'Tis he whose law is reason; who depends Upon that law, as on the...Whence, in a state where men are tempted still To evil fbr a guard against worse ill, • And what in quality or act is best Doth seldom on a right foundation... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...As more exposed to suffering and distress ; Thence, also, more alive to tenderness. — Tis he whose law is reason ; who depends Upon that law as on the...guard against worse ill, And what in quality or act is best Doth seldom on a right foundation rest, He fixes good on good alone, and owes To virtue every... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...more exposed to suffering and distress ; Thence, also, more alive to tenderness ; — 'Tis he whose law is reason; who depends Upon that law as on the...guard against worse ill, And what in quality or act is best Doth seldom on a right foundation rest, He fixes good on good alone, and owes ' To virtue every... | |
 | Edward Tagart - 1832 - 352 pages
...TAGART. Who is the happy Warrior ? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be ? —'Tis he whose law is reason ; who depends Upon that law as on the best of friends ; Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by open means ; and there will stand On honourable terms,... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1837 - 432 pages
...honour, safety, and the means of perpetual progress. CHAPTER III. MORALS OF POLITICS* " Tis h<) whose law is reason ; who depends Upon that law as on the...guard against worse ill, And what in quality or act is best. Doth seldom on a right foundation rest, He fixes good on good alone, and owes To virtue every... | |
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More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure, As tempted more ; more able to endure, As more exposed to suffering and distress ; Thence, also, more alive to tenderness. 
