 A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller betwixt life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill ; A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit, still and bright...  Mercedes of Castile, Or, The Voyage to Cathay - Page 220by James Fenimore Cooper - 1845Full view - About this book
 | 1873 - 612 pages
...being as Wordsworth describes when he says : — ' A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a spirit still, and bright, With something of an angel fight.' We have read this story with unmixed pleasure, and trust it may not be long before Miss Thackeray... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pages
...will, Endurance, foresight, strength and skill ; A perfect Woman ; nobly plann'd, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light. 15 The REDBREAST and the BUTTERFLY. Art thou the Bird whom Man loves best, The pious Bird with the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...will, Endurance, foresight, strength and skill ; A perfect Woman ; nobly plann'd, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still,, and bright With something of an angel li^ht. 15 The REDBREAST and the BUTTERFLY. Art thoa the Bird whom Man loves best. The pious Bird with... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 pages
...will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill, i A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light. >- • VIII. 0 NIGHTINGALE! thou surely art A Creature of ebullient heart : — These notes of thine... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 pages
...will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill, A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light. 311 VIII. 0 NIGHTINGALE! thou surely art A Creature of ebullient heart : — These notes of thine —... | |
 | Andrews Norton - Religious education - 1818 - 1164 pages
...are in harmony with the poet when he speaks of *' A perfect woman, nobly planned To warn, to comfort and command ; And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light." But man has never regarded woman with respect and true love, except so far as he has regarded her as... | |
 | Elizabeth Constantia Agnew - Conversion - 1819 - 266 pages
...will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill: A perfect woman, nobly planned To warn, to comfort, and command. And yet a spirit still and bright, With something of an angel light. WORDSWORTH. AT this part of the conversation, Mr. Everard joined the two friends, and, much pleased to find them... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 372 pages
...will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill, A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light. 134 IX. 0 NIGHTINGALE ! thou surely art A Creature of a fiery heart : — These notes of thine —... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - English poetry - 1820 - 796 pages
...ßrm, the Iemp'rate will IZndurance , foresight , strength , and skill A perfect woman , nobly planu'd To warn , to cornfort . and command And yet a spirit still, and bright fVith something of an Angel light. *) *) Sie war ein Luftgebilde zum Entzücken, als sie strahlend... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1843 - 706 pages
...of whom an English poet so beautifully sings ; " A perfect woman, nobly planned To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light." Again do we thank the author for this fine picture of feminine excellence, in which we see so admirably... | |
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