...bright and fair, A span of waters; yet what power is there! What mightiness for evil and for good ! Even so doth God protect us, if we be Virtuous and...the soul Only, the Nations shall be great and free. XII. THOUGHT OF A BRITON ON THE SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND. Two Voices are there; one is of the sea,...

...may make them our allies. Winds blow, and Waters roll, Strength to the hrave, and Power, and Liberty, Yet in themselves are nothing. One decree Spake laws...the soul Only the Nations shall be great and free. So may all the powers of the human mind, all the subtilty of the intellect, all the aspirations of...

...be acceptable,—to the Rev. John Kitton, Free Grammar School, Hutton, near Preston, Lancashire. " EVEN so doth GOD protect us if we be Virtuous and...the soul Only, the Nations shall be great and free." WORDSWORTH. " As men in proportion to their moral advancement learn to enlarge the circle of their...

...Truth and Freedom; thus he speaks in the sight of the coast of France from England in time of war, " Even so doth God protect us, if we be Virtuous and...the soul Only the Nations shall be great and free." He does not therefore in his Sonnets or his Poems in general, eulogize, as has been the fashion of...

...Truth and Freedom; thus he speaks in the sight of the coast of France from England in time of war, " Even so doth God protect us, if we be Virtuous and...Power, and Deity, Yet in themselves are nothing! One deeree Spake laws to them and said that by the soul Only the Nations shall be great and free." He does...

...France from England in time of war, " Evi-n so doth God protect us, if we be Virtuous and wise. Wind* blow and waters roll, Strength to the brave, and Power,...Spake laws to them and said that by the soul Only the Nation! (hall be great and free." He does not therefore in his Sonneta or his Poems in general, eulogize,...

...things common and trivial and even to all appearance most untoward. One of our own poets has said that " Winds blow and waters roll Strength to the brave,...power, and deity ; Yet in themselves are nothing." Yes; but who are "the brave?" They, surely, who are striving to have the mind of Christ formed in them;...

...the strength of Heaven, if you mean that. Comus, 415. O jovlesa power that stands by lawless force \ Winds blow and waters roll, Strength to the brave,...and Power, and Deity; Yet in themselves are nothing ld.1 Exercise. Feats of or agility excite our wonder and surprise, but they seldom raise in us any...

...became friends, so disasters of all kinds, as sickness, offence, poverty, prove benefactors : — " Winds blow and waters roll Strength to the brave,...and power and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing." The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not...

...And saw, while sea was calm and air was clear, The coast of France—the coast of France how near! Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise,. Winds blow and waters roM, Yet in themselves are nothing! One decree Spake laws to them, and said that by the soul Strength...