Studies in Philosophy and LiteratureC.K. Paul & Company, 1879 - 426 pages |
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Page 416 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth ; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create *, And what perceive...
Page 41 - For why? — because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can.
Page 293 - The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments. They were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure.
Page 253 - The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is — not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be, — but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means : a very different thing ! No abstract intellectual plan of life Quite irrespective of life a plainest laws.
Page 303 - IT is the first mild day of March : Each minute sweeter than before, The redbreast sings from the tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense of joy to yield To the bare trees, and mountains bare And grass in the green field.
Page 309 - He found us when the age had bound Our souls in its benumbing round — He spoke, and loosed our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth; Smiles broke from us and we had ease.
Page 287 - Wordsworth's works is: a correspondent weight and sanity of the Thoughts and Sentiments, — won, not from books; but — from the poet's own meditative observation. They are fresh and have the dew upon them.
Page 291 - I trust is their destiny ? to console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to daylight, by making the happy happier ; to teach the young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, and to feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous...
Page 248 - But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized...
Page 403 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.