 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
 | William Wordsworth - 1881 - 732 sidor
...To inquisition, long and profitless I By pain of heart — now checked — and now impelled— The intellectual power, through words and things, Went...perilous way! And from those transports, and these toil£ abstruse, Some trace am I enabled to retain Of time, else lost ; — existing unto me Only by... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1882 - 560 sidor
...To inquisition, long and profitless ! By pain of heart — now checked— and now impelled — The intellectual power, through words and things, Went...enabled to retain Of time, else lost ; — existing unto mo Only by records in myself not found. From that abstraction I was roused, — and how ? Even as a... | |
 | John Brown - 1882 - 506 sidor
...delirium set in strong, without pause. Her brain gave way, and then came that terrible spectacle, ' The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way ;' she sang bits of old songs and Psalms, stopping suddenly, mingling the Psalms of David, and the... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 sidor
...in. Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged. IKd. Monastic brotherhood, upon rock Aerial. IKd. The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way '. l JKd. Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children. 1IM. 1 Compare The Borderers.... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1883 - 938 sidor
...as with his Solitary in the Excursion. Men had been questioning the outer and the inner life, " The intellectual power through words and things Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way," ind men were roused from that abstraction ; " For lo ! the dread Castile, With all the chambers in... | |
 | James Bradley Thayer - 1884 - 156 sidor
...Wordsworth's ".Light that never was on sea or land," and his famous lines, used more than once : 1 — " The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way." Coleridge's Aids to Reflection " he did not so much value." He told also the story which I remembered... | |
 | Frank Carr - 1885 - 534 sidor
...calm, although daring and imaginative thinker ; an Intellectual Power, which in priestly sequestration "through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way ! " Rut this is essentially a man of action. Books he wrote, but he did still more, he spoke and acted... | |
 | Aubrey De Vere - 1887 - 336 sidor
...life was put To inquisition long and profitless ! By fain of heart now checked — and now impelfd The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way I A worse bereavement follows. His religious faith, never fixed, breaks away from him — no uncommon... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1887 - 388 sidor
...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 and perilous way. From that abstraction I was roused, — and how?" By the fall of the Bastile, when— " From the wreck... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1888 - 504 sidor
...ruins of fallen pride " ; or taught us how, " By pain of heart, now checked, and now impelled, The intellectual power through words and things Went sounding on a dim and perilous way." He has himself described this self-determination of his genius to "preserve and enlarge the freedom... | |
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