 If thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger ! henceforth be warned; and know, that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness; that he, who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties...  The Etonian - Page 2251820Full view - About this book
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1866 - 300 pages
...thing it is to meddle, either in word or in act, with what one does not know. Plato: Whewell. HUMILITY. IF thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Henceforth be warn'd, and know that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1866 - 502 pages
...alike should give : " If thou be one whose heart the holy forma Of young imagination have kept pure, Henceforth be warned ; and know that Pride, • Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, i Is littleness; that he who feels contempt * The advertisement to " Select Pieces from Wordsworth,"... | |
 | Hazlewood - 1867 - 268 pages
...visit the fairy, but her face flushed with anger as she read her paper — "Against Pride." " Stranger, be warned ; and know that pride, Howe'er disguised...living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used. The man whose eye Is ever on himself, doth look on one, The least of Nature's works — one who might... | |
 | William Rounseville Alger - Loneliness - 1867 - 420 pages
...are as dust. He would make us Know that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness j that he who feels contempt For any living thing hath faculties Which he has never used. With unwearied earnestness of conjoined example and precept, he illustrates how — Unelbowed by such... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1867 - 426 pages
...heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Henceforth be warned ; and know that Pri Je, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness; that he who feels contempt * The advertisement to " Select Pieces from Wordsworth," p. 4. t Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew Tree.... | |
 | Edward Thring - English language - 1868 - 392 pages
...the wind breathe soft, the curling waves, That break against the shore, shall lull thy mind. p. 7. If thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young...imagination have kept pure, Stranger! henceforth be warned. p. 9. First Clause wanting. One who might move The wise man to that scorn which wisdom holds Unlawful... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1869 - 752 pages
...pride, Hone'er disguised in its own majesty, ness ; that he who feels contempt For any living tiling, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in iu infancy. The man whose eye U via on himself doth look on one, Tb» lead of Nature's works, one who... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1870 - 236 pages
...ftreamed with tears. In this deep vale He died, — this feat his only monument. If Thou be one whofe heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept...henceforth be warned ; and know that pride, Howe'er difguifed in his own majefty, Is littlenefs ; that he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1892 - 996 pages
...interpreter, for none had listened with an ear so patient as his for mastery of her language. His announcement that He who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used, was like a revelation. That he had purged himself of all such baseness was his absolute conviction... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1871 - 622 pages
...Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger ! henceforth be warned; and know that pride, Howe i er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that...Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in ils infancy. The man whose eye Is ever on himself, doth look on one, The least of Nature's works, one... | |
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