...rapture of Creation's hallelujah is stemmed and chastened by Humanity's cry of lonely anguish,—by ‘the fierce confederate storm of sorrow, barricadoed evermore within the walls of cities.' Yet is his cheerful faith unshaken that all which we behold is full of blessings: yet does his song—albeit...

...continuance is prose. Then one is pressed down with the sense of the overwhelming mass of wretchedness, " The fierce confederate storm Of sorrow barricadoed evermore Within the walls of cities." The most strenuous benevolence seems like a drop of sweetness in a bitter ocean. We seem to hear Satan's...

...of birds, driven by a thoughtless impulse. The poem is rambling, with fine lines, — for instance : 'The fierce confederate storm Of sorrow barricadoed evermore Within the walls of cities.' " He often looked at his Virgil, more than ever delighting in what he called " that splendid end of...

...thoughtless impulse. The poem is rambling, with fine lines, — for instance : 1888 CHANCE SAYINGS ' The fierce confederate storm Of sorrow barricadoed evermore Within the walls of cities.' " He often looked at his Virgil, more than ever delighting in what he called " that splendid end of...

...whether or not Mr. Browning ever made of his optimism a deafening medium between his sensibilities and the fierce confederate storm Of sorrow, barricadoed evermore Within the walls of cities, there is always an even chance that the less sensitive will so employ the theorem. In the case of Shaftesbury...

...fellowships of men, and see ill sights Of madding passions mutually inflamed ; Must hear humanity in fields and groves Pipe solitary anguish ; or must hang Brooding...that even these Hearing I be not downcast or forlorn. What, then, is Wordsworth's ' authentic comment ' ? Why are we not to be ' downcast or forlorn ' ?...

...fellowships of men, and see ill sights Of madding passions mutually inflamed ; Must hear humanity in fields and groves Pipe solitary anguish ; or must hang Brooding...Of sorrow, barricadoed evermore Within the walls of cities—may these sounds Have their authentic comment, that even these Hearing I be not downcast or...

...fellowships of men, and see ill sights Of madding passions mutually inflamed ; Must hear Humanity in fields and groves Pipe solitary anguish ; or must hang Brooding...Of sorrow, barricadoed evermore Within the walls of cities,—may these sounds Have their authentic comment; that even these Hearing, I be not downcast...

...fellowships of men, and see ill sights Of madding passions mutually inflamed ; Must hear Humanity in fields and groves Pipe solitary anguish ; or must hang Brooding...that even these Hearing, I be not downcast or forlorn ! — Descend, prophetic Spirit ! that inspir'st The human Soul of universal earth, Dreaming on things...

...clerk in the bank of James Fox & Company, in King Street, and for the next seventeen years he endured 'The fierce confederate storm Of sorrow barricadoed evermore Within the walls of cities.' How simple and frugal his life was there, we may gather from the fact that out of his first year's...