 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 648 pages
...dear dear Sister ! and this prayer I make Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her ; 'tis her privilege Through all the years of...life, to lead From joy to joy : for she can so inform 22 THE ENGLISH POETS. The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed... | |
 | Education - 1921 - 744 pages
...tears; and expresses his poetical creed in the stanza, Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy. IV. WORDSWORTH'S THEORY OF POETRY. (Quoted.) 1. Wordsworth began his career by preaching, both by precept... | |
 | Louisa Macduff - 1880 - 304 pages
...The earth receivcth blessing from God." — Hcb. vi. 7. Nature never did betray The heart that loved her ; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead 96 From joy to joy ; for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 pages
...dear, dear sister ! and this prayer I make, Knowing that nature never did betray The heart that loved her ; 'tis her privilege. Through all the years of this our life, to lead s Abundant recompense. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - Literature - 1899 - 356 pages
...portion of the poem its particular significance. Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 't is her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy ; far she can so inform The mind that it within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Literary Collections - 1985 - 84 pages
...dear, dear sister. And this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her: 'tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life to lead 125 From joy to joy, for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and... | |
 | Kevin Z. Moore - Fiction - 1993 - 344 pages
...Specifically, Sue's charge rescinds Wordsworth's claim that "Nature never did betray/ The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege,/ Through all the years of this our life, to lead/ From joy to joy" ("Tintern Abbey," 122-24). This is the "plan" or promise that Sue claims "fate" has stabbed them in... | |
 | Elizabeth R. Epperly - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 292 pages
...dear, dear Sister! and this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy ... (119-25) A childhood favourite of Montgomery, Wordsworth is shown here to be woven into Emily's... | |
 | George Hughes - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 274 pages
...dear, dear Sister! and this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy ... (119-25) One could conclude the interpretation of the poem here in a state of modified pessimism... | |
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tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy... 
