 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 - 1896 - 420 sidor
...enabled to retain Of time, else lost ; — existing unto me Only by records in myself not found. 705 " From that abstraction I was roused, — and how ? Even as a thoughtful shepherd by a flash * Compare The Borderers, act IV. II. 124, 125 (see vol. ip 198) — Three sleepless nights I passed... | |
 | William John Clarke Miller - 1899 - 248 sidor
...life was put To inquisition long and pitiless. By pain of heart, now checked, and now impelled, The intellectual power, through words and things Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way." Throughout the ninteenth century, there has been steadily growing up a vigorous dramatic literature... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1912 - 1214 sidor
...as with his Solitary in the Excursion, Men had been questioning the outer and the inner life, " The men were roused from that abstraction ; " For lo ! the dread Bastilo, With all the chambers in its... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1901 - 320 sidor
...to." There is, perhaps, some confusion with a line in Wordsworth's 'Excursion,' Bk. iii. : — " The intellectual power through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way." There is a similar allusion to Coleridge in the ' Sp1rit of the Age': "Mr Coleridge is too rich in... | |
 | William James Dawson - 1901 - 510 sidor
...relation to God He passes in the same degree into the true consciousness of Himself. His thoughts " Through words and things Went sounding on a dim and perilous way," and it is surely no irreverence to suppose that in this process there should be moments of hesitation,... | |
 | William James Dawson - 1901 - 484 sidor
...relation to God He passes in the same degree into the true consciousness of Himself. His thoughts " Through words and things Went sounding on a dim and perilous way," and it is surely no irreverence to suppose that in this process there should be moments of hesitation,... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 sidor
...uuredressed, or insults unavenged. The Excurtion. Book Hi Monastic brotherhood, upon rock Aerial. Ibid. The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way ! * ibid. Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children. ibid. And the most difficult... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1186 sidor
...Milton, I know of no poet with so many felicities and unforgettable lines and stanzas as you." a The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way ! The Excurrion, book Hi. A simple child That lightly draws its hreath, And feels its life in every... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1904 - 1002 sidor
...heart — now checked — and now impelled — The intellectual power, through words and things, 700 Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way ! And from...thoughtful shepherd by a flash Of lightning startled jlf a gloomy cave Of these wild hillsV For, lo I the dread Bastile, With all the chambers in its horrid... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1904 - 382 sidor
...heart — now checked — and now impelled — The intellectual power, through words and things, 700 Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way ! And from...to retain Of time, else lost ; — existing unto me The new Only by records in myself not found. hopes of yyy I7§9 From that abstraction I was roused,... | |
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