 Turned inward, to examine of what stuff Time's fetters are composed ; and life was put To inquisition long and profitless! By pain of heart now checked — and now impelled — The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim...  The Excursion: A Poem - Sida 86efter William Wordsworth - 1853 - 374 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 750 sidor
...was put To inquisition, long and profitless ! By pain of heart, now check'd, and now impell'd— Th' intellectual power, through words and things, Went...in myself not found. " From that abstraction I was roused,—and how ? E'en as a thoughtful shepherd by a flash Of lightning startled in a gloomy cave... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - 1841 - 616 sidor
...have been ! We are reminded of the expressive lines of Wordsworth, though differently applied : " The Intellectual Power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way."* The inventions of that period were also most important. The use of the compass was now first observed.... | |
 | 1842 - 416 sidor
...life was put To inquisition long and profitless ! By pain of heart, uow checked, and now impelled, The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way. . For all this we claim no praise short of that due, not to superiority, but to perfection. There is... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 sidor
...inquisition, long and profitless ! By pain of heart — now checked — and now impelled— The intelleetual power, through words and things, Went sounding on,...me Only by records in myself not found. From that abstraetion I was roused, — and how ! Even as a thoughtful shepherd by a flash Of lightning startled... | |
 | Joseph Blanco White - 1845 - 386 sidor
...which you have gone through. There is none to which the lines of Wordsworth are more applicable: " The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way." The most important objects with which the mind is familiar are changing their aspects as we move forward,... | |
 | Joseph Blanco White - 1845 - 390 sidor
...which you have gone through. There is none to which the lines of Wordsworth are more applicable: " The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way." The most important objects with which the mind is fami-liar are changing their aspects as we move forward,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 sidor
...manner in which he was roused from his melancholy:— " From that abstraction I was roused—and how 1 Even as a thoughtful shepherd by a flash Of lightning, startled in a gloomy care Of these wild hills. For, lo! the dread Bastile, With all the chambers in Us horrid towers, Fell... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 sidor
...feelings in the imagery of these three lines — " By pain of heart, now check 'd, and now impell'd, The Intellectual Power, through words and things, Went sounding on, — a dim and perilous way ! " At last he is roused from this dejected mood, by the glorious promises which seemed held out to... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 682 sidor
...feelings in the imagery of these three lines — " By pain of heart, now check 'd, and now impell'd, The Intellectual Power, through words and things, Went sounding on, — a dim and perilous way ! " At last he is roused from this dejected mood, by the glorious promises which seemed held out to... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 sidor
...— and now impelled— The intellectual power, through words and tilings, Went sounding on, a dun and perilous way ! And from those transports, and...records in myself not found. From that abstraction I was routed, — and how ! Even as a thoughtful shepherd by a flash Of lightning startled in a gloomy cave... | |
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