 Tis by comparison, an easy task Earth to despise; but, to converse with heaven— This is not easy:— to relinquish all We have, or hope, of happiness and joy, And stand in freedom loosened from...  Blackwood's Magazine - Էջ 381827Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Horace Binney Wallace - 1856 - 468 էջ
...in the march. The world may be wrong, and yet we may mistake ' reverse of wrong for right :' JTis, by comparison, an easy task Earth to despise : but to converse with Heaven — This is not easy. It seems to me, that the principle of these men, if they had any principle, was,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 472 էջ
...me that flags, Through sinful choice ; or dread necessity On human nature from above imposed. 'Tis, by comparison, an easy task Earth to despise ; but, to converse with heaven— This is not easy :—to relinquish all We have, or hope, of happiness and joy, And stand in freedom... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1858 - 550 էջ
...me that flngs Through sinful choice, or dread necessity On human nature, from above, imposed. 'Tis, By comparison, an easy task Earth to despise ; but, to converse with Heswea — This is not easy. To relinquish all We have, or hope, of happiness and joy, And stand in... | |
 | Charles Isidore Hemans - 1860 - 602 էջ
...the deeper may be the fall from efforts to attain that ideal proposed in the religious life— 'Tis, by comparison, an easy task Earth to despise; but to converse with Heaven, This is not easy. (Wordsworth) At that central Monastery of the Vallombrosans , the first series of... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 էջ
...me that flags Through sinful choice, or dread necessity On human nature, from above, imposed. 'Tis, by comparison, an easy task Earth to despise; but, to converse with Heaven — 23 This is not easy. To relinquish all We have, or hope, of happiness and joy, And stand in freedom... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1861 - 402 էջ
...soul of her whom I am more disposed to believe is praying before the throne of God for us." " "Tis by comparison, an easy task Earth to despise ; but, to converse with Heaven — This is not easy." We have seen, however, how this latter and greatest object was achieved by one... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1866 - 512 էջ
...me that flags, Through smful choice ; or dread necessity On human nature from above imposed. 'Tis, by comparison, an easy task Earth to despise; but, to converse with heavenTina is not easy: — to relinquish all We have, or hope, of happiness and joy, And stand in... | |
 | 1899 - 974 էջ
...words mast have been in Wordsworth's mind when he wrote in " The Ex* cmaon," Book IV. : " 'Tis, !'_v comparison, an easy task Earth to despise ; but to converse with heaven — Thte is not ta-\ . ' and joy, and it will be hard to have any pleasant thoughts of Heaven. In short,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 472 էջ
...9. Relinquish the hope and attempt of expressing. 1 1 . Wordsworth, Excursion, Book IV.: — " 'T is by comparison an easy task Earth to despise ; but to converse with heaven, — This is not easy : — to relinquish all We have, or hope, of happiness and joy, And stand in freedom... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 458 էջ
...9. Relinquish the hope and attempt of expressing. 11. Wordsworth, Excursion, Book IV. : — 11 "Tis by comparison an easy task . ' Earth to despise ; but to converse with heaven, — This is not easy : — to relinquish all We have, or hope, of happiness and joy, And stand in freedom... | |
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