 | Fashion - 422 pages
....t. M. LACKY. SKETCHES BY AN OLD MAID. No. III. THE WOODEN LEG. " Those first affections. Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day." WORDSWORTH. The young and beautiful that grew up with me, and shared my childish sports and my girlhood's... | |
 | 1839 - 538 pages
...when he exultingly tells us, " The thought of our past years in me doth hreed Perpetual benediction : for those first affections Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing ; Uphold us, cherish,... | |
 | Commerce - 1840 - 572 pages
...shrouded in sin. In the life and character of Roscoe, we see nurtured, with a beautiful and holy care,— -Those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing ; Uphold us, — cherish,... | |
 | 1841 - 580 pages
...of the Proverbs, the poetry and philosophy of revelation, truths which ' Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master-light of all our seeing,' that, the use of language apart, they afford just the instruction and discipline suited to the dignity... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - American literature - 1841 - 988 pages
...desert of ambition : -Those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, he they what Ihey may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day ; Are yet a master light of all our seeing ; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments... | |
 | American poetry - 1842 - 480 pages
...realised, High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised : But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing ; Of the eternal silence... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1842 - 412 pages
...realiz'd, High instincts, before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surpris'd ; But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Uphold us, cherish us, and make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths... | |
 | 1843 - 684 pages
...first birth, the wreath of love WHS woven, With sparklingetars for flowers."— The Picealamini. " Those first affections, Those shadowy recollections,...they what they may, • Are yet the fountain-light of nil our day; Are yet a master-light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make,... | |
 | Samuel Sidwell Randall - Education - 1844 - 264 pages
...our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive ! " * * * "— those first affections, Those shadowy recollections,...Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet the master-light of all our seeing, Uphold us, cherish us, and have power to make Our noisy years seem... | |
 | American literature - 1865 - 820 pages
...questionings," the high " instincts," the " first affections," the " shadowy recollections," " Which, do they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of...our day — Are yet a master-light of all our seeing ; " the great but vague faith — the unutterable tenets — seem to him worthless, visionary ; they... | |
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But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing... 
