...brightness — as the ample moon, In the deep stillness of a summer even, Rising behind a thick and lofty grove, Burns like an unconsuming fire of light...feeds A calm, a beautiful, and silent fire From the encumbrances of mortal life, From error, disappointment — nay, from guilt i And sometimes, so relenting...

...disunion, though delayed, will not be the less certain to ensue. LECTURE XII. CONCLUSION OF THE COURSE. VIRTUE thus Sets forth and magnifies herself, thus feeds A calm, a beautiful, a silent fire From the incumbrances of mortal life, From error — disappointment — nay from guilt,...

...native brightness. As the ample moon, In the deep stillness of a summer eve, Rising behind a thick and lofty grove, Burns like an unconsuming fire of light...feeds A calm, a beautiful, and silent fire, From the incumbrances of mortal life, From error, disappointment, nay, from guilt; And sometimes, so relenting...

...the ample moon, In the deep stillness of a summer-even, Rising behind a thick and lofty grove, Bums, like an unconsuming fire of light, In the green trees...feeds A calm, a beautiful, and silent fire From the encumbrances of mortal life, From error, disappointment, — nay, from guilt, And sometimes (so relenting...

...the ample moon. In the deep stillness of a summer-even, Rising behind a thick and lofty grove, Bums, like an unconsuming fire of light, In the green trees...power " Capacious and serene ;— like power abides /It In man's celestial spirit. Virtue thus Sets forth and magnifies herself; thus feeds A calm, a beautiful,...

...native brightness. As the ample moon, In the deep stillness of a summer even Rising behind a thick and lofty grove, Burns like an unconsuming fire of light,...glorious as her own, Yea, with her own incorporated, hy power Capacious and serene ; like power ahides In man's celestial spirit; virtue thus Sets forth...

...native brightness. As the ample moon, In the deep stillness of a summer even Rising behind a thick and lofty grove, Burns like an unconsuming fire of light,...and, kindling on all sides Their leafy umbrage, turns tho dusky veil Into a substance glorious as her own, Yea, with her own incorporated, by power Capacious...

...foreground : but ' As the ample moon, In the deep stillness of a summer even Rising behind a thick and leafy grove, Burns like an unconsuming fire of light In...serene : like power abides In man's celestial spirit;' — and thus to the poet's mind all things were not only pure, but glorified. For example, let us compare...

...the deep stillness of a summer even Rising behind a thick and lofty grove Burns, like an unconsnming fire of light, In the green trees ; and, kindling...own incorporated, by power, Capacious and serene." Excursion, p. 432. We conclude our notice of the excellences of this poet, by adopt. ing the language...

...foreground : but ' As the ample moon, In the deep stillness of a summer even Rising behind a thick and leafy grove, Burns like an unconsuming fire of light In...green trees; and, kindling on all sides Their leafy umhrage, turns the dusky veil Into a substance glorious as her own, Yea, with her own incorporated,...