 How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. And hark! how blithe the throstle sings! He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.  The Recreations of a Country Parson - Page 141by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1866 - 418 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Julia B. Hoitt - Quotations, English - 1890 - 426 pages
...Coleridge "Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way. Coleridge Come forth into the light of things ; let Nature be your teacher. Wordsioorth The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task. Wordsworth Knowing that Nature never... | |
 | William Bruce Leffingwell - Fowling - 1888 - 418 pages
...laying in his winter's store. One who cannot enjoy such scenes, destiny did not intend for a hunter. "Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher, One impulse from the vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 292 pages
...hear the woodland linnet, 10 How sweet his music ! on my life There 's more of wisdom in it. And hark! how blithe the throstle sings! He, too, is no mean...breathed by health, Truth breathed by cheerfulness. 20 One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Sweet is the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English literature - 1889 - 468 pages
...the woodland linnet, I° How sweet his music ! on my life, There 's more of wisdom in it. And hark ! how blithe the throstle sings ! He, too, is no mean...breathed by health, Truth breathed by cheerfulness. 20 One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1889 - 934 pages
...his note so true, The wren with little quill. 1. Midsummer Aiy/tCs I>reum. Act II. So. 1. And hark ! how blithe the throstle sings! He, too, is no mean...into the light of things, Let nature be your teacher. m. WOBDSWOBTH — The Tables Turned. THRUSH. Within a thick and spreading hawthorn bush That overhung... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Henry Norman Hudson - 1889 - 251 pages
...the throstle sings! le, too, is no mean preacher: iu' forth into the light of thing?, Let Nature bo your teacher. She has a world of ready wealth. Our minds and hearts to blese, — ipontancous wisdom breathed bj health, Truth breathed by cheerfulness. One impulse from... | |
 | Thomas Pfau - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 478 pages
...first sweet evening yellow. Books! 'tis a dull and endless strife, Come, hear the woodland linnet, Let Nature be your teacher. She has a world of ready...Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health Truth breathed by chearfulness. (LB, 108-9, ll. 1-2.0) What perplexes about this poem is its outright reversal of the... | |
 | Meinhard Winkgens - Didactic fiction, English - 1997 - 452 pages
...zugesprochen ("There's more of wisdom in it."), vom 'frohen Gesang' der Singdrossel heißt es: "And he is no mean preacher; Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher", und die moralische Wirkung des Frühlingswaldes wird höher bewertet als die in Texten überlieferte... | |
 | John Hollander - Education - 1997 - 342 pages
...guarded, transumptive revision of a particular earlier bird, Wordsworth's throstle in "The Tables Turned": He, too, is no mean preacher; Come forth into the light of things, Let nature be vour teacher. The last of these lines is phonologically unfortunate, and its awkwardness casts modern... | |
 | Leith Davis - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 240 pages
...strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your Teacher. (II 9-16) Instead of merely reiterating Burns's sentiments, however, Wordsworth effects a refashioning... | |
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