 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 - 1889 - 1016 sidor
...By pain of heart — now checked — and now impelled — The intellectual power, through words ami things, Went sounding on , a dim and perilous way ! And from those transports, and these toil* abstruse, 448 449 Some trace am I enabled to retain Of time, else lost ; — existing unto me... | |
 | William Wordsworth, John Morley - 1889 - 1152 sidor
...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 «;i> ' And from those transports, and these toils abstruse, 448 449 Some trace am I enabled to retain... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1891 - 270 sidor
...which delineate exactly the labour and strenuousness of the thinking aspects of his life — " The intellectual power through words and things Went sounding on a dim and perilous way." This does not express that vividness of his faith in Divine guidance, that exultation in the wisdom... | |
 | William John Deane - 1891 - 678 sidor
...after light, if only he follow the Light of the world, it will surely dawn, though for a season " The intellectual power, through words and things. Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way." IV. THE PROVERBS TREAT OF HUMAN CONDUCT. 1. Next to theology, the highest knowledge is that of human... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1892 - 524 sidor
...To inquisition, long and profitless ! l!y pain of heart — now checked — and now impelled — The intellectual power, through words and things, Went...found. From that abstraction I was roused, — and how? Kven as a thoughtful shepherd by a flash Of lightning startled in a gloomy cave Of these wild hills.... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 sidor
...The intellect of the wise is like glass ; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. Hart. The hat love / Not unconsidered leave your honour. /'/<•«. /'///., i. 2. 5 Love's fire, W'or.is-tvorth. The intelligent have a right over the ignorant ; namely, the right of instructing them.... | |
 | Kenyon West - 1895 - 588 sidor
...—Book I. —Book II. Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar. —Book III. The intellectual power, through words and things Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way. The most difficult of tasks to keep —Book III. Heights which the soul is competent to gain. Persuasion... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1895 - 368 sidor
...thought: and the epoch of joyous recognition was followed by a long period of verification, when "the intellectual power through words and things went sounding on a dim and perilous way." Hope was the word of the first of the century; but the word of its central years was doubt. At last... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1895 - 364 sidor
...thought: and the epoch of joyous recognition was followed by a long period of verification, when "the intellectual power through words and things went sounding on a dim and perilous way." Hope was the word of the first of the century; but the word of its central years was doubt. At last... | |
 | Kenyon West - 1895 - 614 sidor
...scoffer's pen. — Book II. Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar. —Book III. The intellectual power, through words and things Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way. —Book III. The most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain. —Book... | |
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