 And, oh ! when Nature sinks, as oft she may, Through long-lived pressure of obscure distress, Still to be strenuous for the bright reward, And in the soul admit of no decay, Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness — Great is the glory, for the strife...  Ethical Religion - Page 167by William Mackintire Salter - 1889 - 332 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1876 - 592 pages
...Haydons yet unborn, and they may learn ' Still to be strenuous for the bright reward, And in the soul admit of no decay, Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness : Great is the glory, for the strife is hard ! ' We turn therefore with peculiar pleasure to the Wordsworth portion of this correspondence, or rather... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1820 - 364 pages
...long-lived pressure of obscure distress, Still to be strenuous for the bright reward, And in the soul admit of no decay, — Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness : Great is the glory, for the strife is hard ! XIV. COMPOSED IN ONE OF THE VALLEYS OF WESTMORELAND, ON EASTER SUNDAY. WITH each recurrence of this... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...long-lived pressure of obscure distress, Still to be strenuous for the bright reward, And in the soul admit of no decay, Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness — Great is the glory, for the strife is hard ! XLIII. FROM the dark chambers of dejection freed, Spurning the unprofitable yoke of care, Rise, GILLIES,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1899 - 308 pages
...long-lived pressure of obscure distress, Still to be strenuous for the bright reward, And in the soul admit of no decay, Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness — Great is the glory, for the strife is hard ! FROM the dark chambers of dejection freed, Rise, Gillies, Spurning the unprofitable yoke of care,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 626 pages
...long-lived pressure of obscure distress, Still to be strenuous for the bright reward, And in the soul admit of no decay, Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness — Great is the glory, for the strife is hard! — vol. ii. p. 170. We have spoken of his worship of his art as inspiring this fortitude ; but it... | |
 | 1836 - 424 pages
...lon^-lived pressure of obscure distress, Still to be strenuous for the bright reward, And in the soul admit of no decay, Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness, — Great is the glory, for the strife is hard." JB ART. III. — An Impartial Exposition of the Evidences and Doctrines of the Christian Religion,... | |
 | 1834 - 602 pages
...long-lived pressure of obscure distress, Still to be strenuous for the bright reward, And in the soul admit of no decay, Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness — Great is the glory, for the strife is hard! — vol. ii. p. 170. We have spoken of his worship of his art as inspiring this fortitude ; but it... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...long-lived pressure of obscure distress, Still to be strenuous for the bright reward, And in the soul admit of no decay, Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness — Great is the glory, for the strife is hard ! Iv. FROM the dark chambers of dejeetion freed, Spurning the unprofitable yoke of care, Rise, GILLIES,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 pages
...long-lived pressure of obscure distress, Still to be strenuous for the bright reward, And in the soul admit of no decay, Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness — Great is the glory, for the strife U hard ! IT. FROM the dark chambers of dejection freed, Spurning the unprofitable yoke of care, Rise,... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 524 pages
...long-lived pressure of obscure distress, Still to be strenuous for the bright reward, And in the soul admit of no decay, Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness — Great is the glory, for the strife is hard." Let us then, at this moment, rather endeavour to look at the happiness which Spenser enjoyed here for... | |
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