Wordsworth: Poet of Nature and Poet of Man, Volume 10Ginn, 1912 - 320 pages |
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... soul : Wisdom and Spirit of the universe ! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought , That givest to forms and images a breath 1 The Prelude , I , 340-356 . And everlasting motion , not in vain By day or 20 WORDSWORTH.
... soul : Wisdom and Spirit of the universe ! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought , That givest to forms and images a breath 1 The Prelude , I , 340-356 . And everlasting motion , not in vain By day or 20 WORDSWORTH.
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... breath was a " kind of gentler spring " that went before his steps , so that in his conception of and regard for Man we also find him indebted to her for a certain measure of help . He says : At a time When Nature , destined to remain ...
... breath was a " kind of gentler spring " that went before his steps , so that in his conception of and regard for Man we also find him indebted to her for a certain measure of help . He says : At a time When Nature , destined to remain ...
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... breathing the same spirit , belonging to the year 1798. The first of these is entitled " Lines written in Early Spring . " In a prefa- tory note Wordsworth says it was " actually composed while I was sitting by the side of the brook ...
... breathing the same spirit , belonging to the year 1798. The first of these is entitled " Lines written in Early Spring . " In a prefa- tory note Wordsworth says it was " actually composed while I was sitting by the side of the brook ...
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... breath of the water- fall . This motion varied of course in proportion to the power of water in the brook . " This unique spot was a meeting place of Wordsworth , Coleridge , and their Alfoxden friends . Coleridge himself refers to it ...
... breath of the water- fall . This motion varied of course in proportion to the power of water in the brook . " This unique spot was a meeting place of Wordsworth , Coleridge , and their Alfoxden friends . Coleridge himself refers to it ...
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... breathing flowers , Feelingly watched , might teach Man's haughty race How without injury to take , to give Without offence.1 Furthermore , in contrasting his attitude toward Nature , after his mind had fallen a prey to the spirit of ...
... breathing flowers , Feelingly watched , might teach Man's haughty race How without injury to take , to give Without offence.1 Furthermore , in contrasting his attitude toward Nature , after his mind had fallen a prey to the spirit of ...
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Page 143 - The floating Clouds their state shall lend To her ; for her the willow bend ; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Page 214 - Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Page 126 - Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world Is lightened: — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on,— Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: 319 While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the...
Page 275 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy : for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is...
Page 128 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, ' And mountains ; and of all that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create *, And what perceive...
Page 127 - In darkness, and amid the many shapes Of joyless day-light; when the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, Have hung upon the beatings of my heart, How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee O sylvan Wye!
Page 143 - Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, " A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. " Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Page 252 - How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species) to the external World Is fitted :— and how exquisitely, too — Theme this but little heard of among men — The external World is fitted to the Mind ; And the creation (by no lower name Can it be called) which they with blended might Accomplish : — this is our high argument.
Page 168 - More welcome notes to weary bands Of travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands: A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.
Page 292 - The man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor ; he cherishes and loves it in his solitude : the poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science.