 | William Forsyth - 1874 - 482 lehte
...a reprehensible indifference to figures, facts, and calculations. But I hold with Wordsworth : — Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves...impress, — That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise fassiveness. One of the most characteristic parts of the Fair is the long wooden bridge across the... | |
 | Dorothy Wordsworth - 1874 - 378 lehte
...forms of nature. Rather, I believe, his feeling would be — silence is best. Has he not reminded us that ' There are powers Which of themselves our minds...we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness ' ? It was just because he could present to nature so broad and tranquil an expanse of receptive silence... | |
 | 1874 - 588 lehte
...beach and gaze away the day — impressed more strongly than ever with the sentiment of Wordsworth : " Nor less I deem that there are powers, Which of themselves our minds impress, That we can feel this mind of ours, In a wise pasaiveness. Think yon 'mid all the mighty stun, Of things forever... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1875 - 728 lehte
...To me my good friend Matthew spake, And thus I made reply : "The eye — it cannot choose but see; We cannot bid the ear be still; Our bodies feel, where'er...for ever speaking, That nothing of itself will come, Bat we must still be seeking? Then ask not wherefore, here, alone, Conversing as I may, I sit upon... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 lehte
...ploughshare, died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love. Poems composed in Summer oj 1833. xjcxvii. Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves...can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. Expostulation and Reply. 1 The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing Made of a quill from an Angel's... | |
 | Laura M. Lane - 1875 - 326 lehte
...? " I urged. "Ah! we must leave that to God;" and then the Vicar repeated half to himself, — " ' Think you mid all this mighty sum Of things for ever...That nothing of itself will come, But we must still he seeking.' " It will be well for us to bear that in mind, Miss Dora. We are sometimes in danger of... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - 1876 - 152 lehte
...me my good Friend Matthew spake, And tfius I made reply : — " " The eye, it cannot choose but see, We cannot bid the ear be still; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against or with our will. *See Lyrical Ballads, vol. i: p. I. j " Nor less I deem that there are Powers, Which of themselves... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1876 - 360 lehte
...thought. We turn to these things instinctively, at first, " The eye,—it cannot choose but see, \Ve cannot bid the ear be still; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against or with our will." Man is not sufficient for himself intellectually, more than pc physically. He cannot rely wholly 0n... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1876 - 398 lehte
...turn to these things instinctively, at first, " The eye, — it cannot choose hut see, "We cannot hid the ear be still ; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against or "with our will." Man is not sufficient for himself intellectually, more than physically. He cannot rely wholly on what... | |
 | William Howitt - 1877 - 732 lehte
...my good friend Mathew spake, And thus I made reply : — " ' The eye, it cannot choose but see ; \Ve cannot bid the ear be still ; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against, or with our will. " ' Nor leu I deem that there are powers Which of themselves our mind* impress ; That we can feel this mind... | |
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Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. 
