I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation — and, by words Which speak of nothing more than what we are, Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep Of Death, and win the vacant... The excursion, being a portion of The recluse, a poem - Sida 8efter William Wordsworth - 1857Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| John Aikin - 1838 - 796 sidor
...spousal verse Of this great consummation ; — and, hy words Which speak of nothing more than what we M q E nohle raptures ; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual mind (And the progressive... | |
| 1839 - 510 sidor
...sorrowful, and with every joyful heart in the universe ; he finds " grateful haunts" in studying " How exquisitely the individual mind (And the progressive...external world Is fitted ; — and how exquisitely, too, The external world is fitted to the mind." Work*, p. 394. But, on the other hand, he finds it hard... | |
| George Ripley - 1839 - 174 sidor
...nature, to rebuke their proud disdain of divine things, and, like the great moral poet of England, To arouse the sensual from their sleep Of Death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures. " I know," says he, " that it is quite as little your custom to honor the Deity in the holy stillness... | |
| George Ripley - 1840 - 414 sidor
...nature, to rebuke their proud disdain of divine things, and, like the great moral poet of England, To arouse the sensual from their sleep Of Death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures. " I know," says he, " that it is quite as little your custom to honor the Deity in the holy stillness... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1841 - 400 sidor
...spousal verse Of this great consummation: — and, by words Which speaJc of nothing more than what we are, Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep Of...vacant and the vain To noble raptures ; while my voice proclaim* How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1887 - 490 sidor
...teacher is none the less to be fulfilled : — " and by words Which speak of nothing more than what we are, Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep Of...voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual mind * * * * to the external world Is fitted, and how exquisitely too, (Theme this but little heard of among... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 sidor
...of man, My haunt, and the main region of my song. Hy words Which speak of nothing more than what we are. Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep Of death, and win the vacant and the vain To nobto raptures ; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual mind (And the progressive... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 sidor
...haunt, and the main region of my song. Ry words Which speak of nothing more than what we are, Would 1 arouse the sensual from their sleep Of death, and...the vain To noble raptures; while my voice proclaims Haw exquisitely the individnal mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species)... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1847 - 404 sidor
...spousal verse Of this great consummation: — and, by words Which speak of nothing more than what we are, Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep Of...: — and how exquisitely, too—- Theme this but tittle heard of among men — The external World is fitted to the Mind ; And the creation (by no lower... | |
| George Washington Light - 1847 - 398 sidor
...nature of man. The truth implied in Wordsworth's allusion to this point is too clear to be questioned : "How exquisitely the individual mind (And the progressive...external world Is fitted : — and how exquisitely, too, The external world is fitted to the mind." The universe is the medium through which our great Parent... | |
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