 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1852 - 874 pages
...Sonnets, which could scarcely have been known to Pope,' when he asserted, that our ereat bard — i Of old things all are over old, Of good things none...From me the sign of life and death : Kingdoms shall shift about, like clouds, Obedient to my breath. Wordsworth's Bob Boy.' 1 [I take unceasing delight... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1853 - 300 pages
...our part ; Becoming, that mankind should learn That we are not to be surpassed In fatherly concern. Of old things all are over old, Of good things none...that we can help to frame A world of other stuff. T. too, will have my kings that take From me the sign of life and death : Kingdoms shall shift about,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 764 pages
...to change kings and kingdoms, as the wind shifts and shapes the clouds.» Of old things all arc orer old, Of good things none are good enough : — Well show that we can help to frame A world of other stuft The records of biography seem to confirm this theory. The men of the greatest genius, as far... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Protestantism - 1853 - 200 pages
...Wordsworth's ' Rob Roy :' he gives their creed to a hair. I quote from a doubtful memory : — " ' Of old things, all are over old ; Of good things, none are good enough ; We'll join and make another world, Of new and better stuff.' " There are various degrees of insanity ; and... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1854 - 364 pages
...fatherly concern. " Of old things all are over old, Of good things none are good enough ; — We 'll show that we can help to frame A world of other stuff....From me the sign of life and death : Kingdoms shall shift about, like clouds, Obedient to my breath." And if the word had been fulfilled, As might have... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 766 pages
...his Sonnets, which could scarcely have been known to Pope,f when he asserted, that our great bard — I too will have my kings, that take From me the sign of life and death: Kingdoms shatt shift about, like clouds, Obedient to my breath. Wordsworth's Rob Roy." * [I take unceasing delight... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1856 - 538 pages
...our part; Becoming, that mankind should learn That we are not to be surpassed In fatherly concern. Of old things all are over old, Of good things none...From me the sign of life and death: Kingdoms shall shift about, like clouds, Obedient to my breath." And, if the word had been fulfilled, As migM have... | |
 | Henry Reed - Great Britain - 1856 - 484 pages
...looked upon the olden time with disdain, and with that insolence of selfsufficiency which vaunts, that " Of old things, all are over old : Of good things,...that we can help to frame A world of other stuff."* It 'is this victory of Hermann over the Romans that Arnold refers to when, during a tour in Germany,... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 590 pages
...might as the only rule of right, as the great lesson of God's appointment ; ROB ROY'S GRAVE. 351 " Of old things, all are over old, Of good things, none...We'll show that we can help to frame A world of other stuffi * I too will have my Kings that take From me the sign of life and death ; Kingdoms shall shift... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 556 pages
...preaching the gospel of might as the only rule of right, as the great lesson of God's appointment; "Of old things, all are over old, •. Of good things, none are good enough ; We'll show that wo can help to frame A world of other stuff, I too will have my Kings that take From me the sign of... | |
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Of old things all are over old, Of good things none are good enough : — We'll show that we can help to frame A world of other stuff! " I, too, will have my kings that take From me the sign of life and death : Kingdoms shall shift about, like clouds,... 
