 | William Charles Edmund Newbolt - 1899 - 362 pages
...look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart." Or Wordsworth, in his famous sonnet, — " 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 - 1899 - 342 pages
...cast, before the eye Of the devout, a veil of ecstasy ! THEY dreamt not of a perishable home Continued 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,... | |
 | Westminster Abbey - 1901 - 158 pages
...mind which I cannot describe ; the very silence seemed sacred." WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. " They dreamed not of a perishable home Who thus could build. Be...fear Or grovelling thought, to seek a refuge here ; And through the aisles of Westminster to roam ; Where bubbles burst, and folly's dancing foam Melts,... | |
 | Reginald Farrar - 1904 - 414 pages
...worldly times. Happy is it for us that their faith has been eternised in these lovely legacies, for — " They dreamt not of a perishable home Who thus could...fear, Or grovelling thought, to seek a refuge here ; Or thro' the aisles of Westminster to roam, Where bubbles burst, and folly's dancing foam Melts if... | |
 | Reginald Farrar - 1904 - 422 pages
...times. Happy I is it for us that their faith has been eternised in these lovely legacies, for — " They dreamt not of a perishable home Who thus could...fear, Or grovelling thought, to seek a refuge here ; Or thro' the aisles of Westminster to roam, Where bubbles burst, and folly's dancing foam Melts if... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1904 - 1002 pages
...strains, that cast, before -'• eye Of the devout, a veil of ecstasy ! XLV CONTINUED 1821. 1822 Ti i K v dreamt not of a perishable home Who thus could build. Be mine, in boot of fear Or grovelling thought, to aeek a refuge ten Or through the aisles of Westminster iere... | |
 | Geoffrey Winthrop Young - 1905 - 140 pages
...its transitory facilities and well deserving of the professed preference of the intrepid Cantab : " They dreamt not of a perishable home Who thus could build ! Be mine in hour of fear Or grovelling thought to seek a refuge here." WORDSWORTH. A full elaboration of the comparison,... | |
 | 1905 - 584 pages
...sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality. (NO. XLV., PART in.) XXXII.-THE SAME. 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,... | |
 | Filson Young - 1906 - 238 pages
...intrusted ; and his, when glooms hang thickest, may be the cry, Fiat Lux. THE OLD CATHEDRAL ORGANISTS They dreamt not of a perishable home Who thus could build. Be mine in hours 0] fear Or grovelling thought, to seek a refuge here -85* • THEY began with Tallis and Byrde ; they... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1907 - 546 pages
...mazy strife ; Heart-thrilling strains, that cast, before the eye Of the devout, a veil of ecstasy ! in 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,... | |
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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... 
