 | William Wordsworth - 1888 - 350 pages
...sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality. CONTINUED. Composed 1821. Published 1822. THEY dreamt not of a perishable home Who thus could...fear Or grovelling thought, to seek a refuge here ; Or through the aisles of Westminster to roam ; Where bubbles burst, and folly's dancing foam Melts,... | |
 | 1888 - 950 pages
...to recall to him the thought of God and the thought of death. " They dreamt not of a perishable homo Who thus could build. Be mine in hours of fear, Or grovelling thought, to seek a refuge here, Or through the aisles of Westminster to roam. Where bubbles burst, and folly's dancing foum Melts if... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 468 pages
...strains, that cast, before the eye Of the devout, a veil of ecstasy ! LI. — CONCLUDED. 1821. — 1822. THEY dreamt not of a perishable home Who thus could...fear Or grovelling thought, to seek a refuge here ; Or through the aisles of Westminster to roam ; Where bubbles burst, and folly's dancing foam Melts,... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Henry Norman Hudson - 1889 - 251 pages
...strife; Heart-thrilling strains, that cast, before the eye Of the devout, a veil of ecstasy! CONTINUED. THEY dreamt not of a perishable home Who thus could...fear Or grovelling thought, to seek a refuge here; Or through the aisles of Westminster to roam; Where bubbles burst, and folly's dancing foam Melts if... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 140 pages
...strife; Heart-thrilling strains, that cast, before the eye Of tine devout, a veil of ecstasy! CONTINUED. THEY dreamt not of a perishable home Who thus could...fear Or grovelling thought, to seek a refuge here; Or through the aisles of Westminster to roam; Where bubbles burst, and folly's dancing foam Melts if... | |
 | James Cameron Lees - 1889 - 484 pages
...removed in 1797. CHAPTER III. tte*toratum— 13S5-H16. They dreamt not of a perishable house Who this could build. Be mine in hours of fear Or grovelling thought, to seek a refuge here. DINBURGH was speedily rebuilt after the fire, and the restoration of the blackened and ruined parish... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1890 - 100 pages
...loath to die; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality. THEY dreamt not of a perishable home Who thus could...fear Or grovelling thought, to seek a refuge here; Or through the aisles of Westminster to roam: Where bubbles burst, and folly's dancing foam Melts,... | |
 | 1891 - 916 pages
...dwell on the grandeur of the building, as when Wordsworth writes in his sonnet on King's College — " They dreamt not of a perishable home Who thus could...fear Or grovelling thought to seek a refuge here, Or through the aisles of Westminster to roam, Where bubbles burst, and folly's dancing foam Melts if... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1893 - 180 pages
...moment we enter into the Abbey,' he said, 'the very silence seems sacred ' ; and Wordsworth says : Be mine in hours of fear Or grovelling thought to...folly's dancing foam Melts if it cross the threshold. Some one has described how a great American orator and statesman, Webster, first entered the Abbey.... | |
 | Raymond Blathwayt - 1893 - 368 pages
...poets upon the preachers is nowhere more perfectly realised than within the walls of our beloved Abbey. They dreamt not of a perishable home who thus could...fear or grovelling thought, To seek a refuge here. Or through the aisles of Westminster to roam Where bubbles burst and folly's dancing foam Melts if... | |
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THEY dreamt not of a perishable home Who thus could build. Be mine, in hours of fear Or grovelling thought, to seek a refuge here ; Or through the aisles of Westminster to roam ; Where bubbles burst, and folly's dancing foam Melts, if it cross the threshold... 
