 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
 | George Henry Calvert - 1878 - 246 էջ
...Virgilian lines. And here, two pages farther, is another " application of ideas to life : " — " 'T is by comparison an easy task Earth to despise ; but to converse with heaven, — This is not easy." Spirituality, a characteristic of Wordsworth as poet, is the very essence of... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 էջ
...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 Ueedom... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1881 - 734 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... | |
 | 1881 - 552 էջ
...of me that flags Through sinful choice, or dread necessity On human nature from above imposed. Tie 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... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1882 - 720 էջ
...of 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 486 էջ
...put. 9. Relinquish the hope and attempt of expressing. 11. Wordsworth, Excursion, Book IV. : — *T IB 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 happineu and loy, And stand fn freedom... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1886 - 574 էջ
...past. 9. Relinquish the hope and attempt of expressing. 11. Wordsworth, Excursion, Book IV. : — '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... | |
 | Lucy Larcom - 1887 - 252 էջ
...full-freighted with our fate, Jut out dark on the offing of the mind. • PJ KAII.BY. 23 August. '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 or joy, And stand in freedom... | |
 | Henry Clay Trumbull - 1889 - 216 էջ
...toilsome, and his ascent more and more of a tax upon all his powers. Wordsworth tells us truly: " 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 or joy, And stand in freedom loosened... | |
 | 1893 - 414 էջ
...wise who soar, but never roam ; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home ! From To a Skylark. 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 or joy, And stand in freedom... | |
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