...dalliance with the misery Even of the dead ; contented thence to draw i A momentary pleasure, never mark'd By reason, barren of all future good. But we have...always might be found A power to virtue friendly.— —WORDSWORTH. MSS. IT is gratifying to me to find from my correspondents, that the homeliness of the...

...yet probably much might be said in favour of this plan. A poet of the highest eminence has observed, that " there is often found In mournful thoughts,...always might be found, A power to virtue friendly." But we need say nothing more o» a subject which is, indeed, self-evident ; and shall only add, that...

...wantonness and would demand Severe reproof if we were men whose hearts Could hold vain dalliance with the misery Even of the dead ; contented thence to draw A momentary pleasure, never mark'd By reason, barren of all future good. But we have known that there is often found In mournful...

...But the poet is not a creature all of joyous fancies ; he knows, as Wordsworth has finely told us, ^ that there is often found In mournful thoughts, and...always might be found, ' . A power to virtue friendly." The stream of his heart is not always like those of spring, huddling and rapid, and telling out gladness,...

...dalliance with the misery Even of the dead; contented thence to draw A momentary pleasure, never mark'd By reason, barren of all future good. But we have known that there is often found c 3 In mournful thoughts, and always might be found, A power to virtue friendly; were't not so, I am...

...wantonness, and would demand Severe reproof, if we were Men whose hearts Could hold vain dalliance with the misery Even of the dead ; contented thence to draw A momentary pleasure, never mark'd By reason, barren of all future good. But we have known that there is often found c 3 In mournful...

...contented thence to draw A momentary pleasure, never mark'd Hy reason, barren of all future good, (tut we have known that there is often found In mournful...always might be found, A power to virtue friendly ; were 't not so, [ I am a Dreamer among men, indeed i An idle Dreamer ! *T is a common Tale, ' An...

...if we were men whose hearts Could hold vain dalliance with the misery Even of the dead ; contenlcd thence to draw A momentary pleasure, never marked By reason, barren of all future good." And he is right ; for if we wish that our actions should be inseparable from virtuous reeling, we must...

...wantonness, and would demand Severe reproof, if we were men whose hearts Could hold vain dalliance with the misery Even of the dead ; contented thence to draw A momentary pleasure, uevcr marked By reason, barren of all future good." And he is right ; for if we wish that our actions...

...EVE. Go, haste unto thy sisters— hence— away — I, too, am sad, and now would be alone. POEMS. There is often found In mournful thoughts, and always might be found, A power to virtue friendly ; were *t not so, I am a Dreamer among men, indeed An idle Dreamer ! THE EXCURSION. TO THE MARTIN....