...which heaven has joined Great issues good or bad for human kind, la happy ai. a lover, and attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired And through...succeed, Come when it will, is equal to the need."* The thanks of the Commons were delivered to him by the Speaker in a most eloquent speech, while the...

...bad for human kind, Is happy as a lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired. He who, though thus endued as with a sense, And faculty...leans To homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes, — Who, not content that former worth stand fast, Looks forward, persevering to the last, — Who,...

...issue, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like to one inspired ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what she foresaw ; Or if an unexpected call succeed, Come when it will, is equal to the need ! Ill all these...

...Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad, for human kind, Is happy as a Lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired ; And, through...faculty for storm and turbulence, Is yet a soul whose master bias leans To home-felt pleasures and to gentle scenes; Sweet images ! which, wheresoe'er he...

...fitly comPa»~es him to the Happy Warrior. Certainly of few leaders of men are the words more true — And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw. Nine years after that November of 1 848 when this piece of paper Passed under his hand, Manin died...

...Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired ; And through...the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw. The two poems have much in common ; the virtue of the soldier, as of the lady, lies not in opposing...

...that air of good nature and popularity. CHAPTEE XXIV AUTUMN DAYS I. — THE PHILOSOPHER IN THE VILLAGE He who, though thus endued as with a sense And faculty for storm and turbulence, la yet a soul whose master-bias leans To home-felt pleasures and to gentle scenes ; More brave for...

...soldiers of to-day. It is the Happy Warrior out of whose strength comes forth sweetness — the man who ' endued as with a sense And faculty for storm and turbulence,...leans To homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes.' At first one may wonder at their choice of profession. Andrew Lang once said of David Henderson, after...

...LIVED ... HE FORESAW." Lines 53 and 54 of Wordsworth's "Character of the Happy Warrior" (1807) read, "And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law / In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw" ( The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, IV, 87). 169. 1 2 THEIR POLITICAL . . . INTEREST. This...

...Heaven has joined 50 Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired; And, through...turbulence, Is yet a Soul whose master-bias leans 60 To homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes; Sweet images! which, whereso'er he be, Are at his heart;...