 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1798 - 240 sidor
...feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy. The man, whose eye Is ever on himself,...Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspeft, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart. THE NIGHTINGALE; A CONVERSATIONAL POEM, WRITTEN-... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 sidor
...feels contempt For any living thing hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy. The man whose eye Is ever on himself...'Unlawful, ever. O be wiser, Thou ! Instructed that true knowkdge leads to love, True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought,... | |
 | 1840 - 606 sidor
...a strange and most prodigious vanity. We know that one of the greatest of English poets has said» The man whose eye Is ever on himself, doth look on...man to that scorn, which wisdom holds Unlawful ever. We know that pride leads men to conceal the littleness, and the weakness, and the poorness of vanity:... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 sidor
...feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy. The man whose eye Is ever on himself...true knowledge leads to love, True dignity abides witli him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 sidor
...feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy. The man whose eye Is ever on himself...one, The least of Nature's works, one who might move 85 The wise man to that scorn which wisdom holds Unlawful, ever. O be wiser, Thou ! Instructed that... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 420 sidor
...least concerned whether he shall ever make a figure in the world. He feels the truth of the lines — " The man whose eye is ever on himself, Doth look on...man to that scorn Which wisdom holds unlawful ever" — he looks out of himself at the wide extended prospect of nature, and takes an interest beyond his... | |
 | 1821 - 746 sidor
...con. cemed whether he shall ever make a figure in the world. I ! . feels the truth of the lines — " The man whose eye is ever on himself, Doth look on...man to that scorn Which wisdom holds unlawful ever " — he looks out of himself at the wide extended prospect of nature, and taken an intcreitt beyond... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1822 - 270 sidor
...feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he hath never used : That thought with him Is in its infancy. The man whose eye Is ever on himself,...doth look on one The least of Nature's works, one that might move The wise man to that scorn which Wisdom holds Unlawful, ever. O, be wiser thou ! Instructed... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1822 - 364 sidor
...infancy. The man whose eye Is ever on himself, doth look on one The least of Nature's works, one that might move The wise man to that scorn which Wisdom holds Unlawful, ever. O, he wiser thou ! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love ; True dignity abides with him alone,... | |
 | 1824 - 452 sidor
...faculties Which he hath never used ; that thonght with him Is in itg infancy. The man whose eye Is everon himself, doth look on one. The least of nature's works...which wisdom holds Unlawful ever. O, be wiser, thou 1 Instructed that true knowledge leads to love, True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent... | |
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Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy. The man whose eye Is ever on himself, doth look on one, The least... 
