| William Wordsworth - 1814 - 476 pages
...dwindles, and decays ; And countless generations of Mankind Depart; and leave no vestige where they trod. We live by admiration, hope, and love ; And even as...and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend. But what is error ? — " Answer he who can !" The Sceptic somewhat haughtily exclaimed, " Love, Hope,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1827 - 456 pages
...dwindles, and decays ; And countless generations of Mankind Depart ; and leave no vestige where they trod. We live by admiration, hope, and love ; And even as...and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend. But what is error ?" — " Answer he who can !" The Sceptic somewhat haughtily exclaimed, " Love, Hope,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1836 - 398 pages
...dwindles, and decays ; And countless generations of mankind Depart ; and leave no vestige where they trod. We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love ; And, even...and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend. But what is error ? " — " Answer he who can ! " The Sceptic somewhat haughtily exclaimed : " Love, Hope,... | |
| Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1836 - 676 pages
...its highest welfare. " Man liveth not by bread alone," any more as a nation than as an individual. We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love, And even as these are well and worthily Axed, In dignity of being we ascend. WORDSWORTH. National well-being consists in the development... | |
| sir John William Kaye - 1837 - 922 pages
...and admiration are stronger principles than envy. "We live by admiration, hope, and love, And e'en as these are well and wisely fixed. In dignity of being we ascend ; " • and I did not think so meanly of my fellow-creatures, as to believe, that by the encouragement... | |
| 1839 - 790 pages
...contemn, to sympathize with than to shun our fellows. We live by admiration, hope and lore, And e'en as these are well and wisely fixed In dignity of being we ascend. We need not say that these lines are Wordsworth's, nor point out the severity with which they may be... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1841 - 400 pages
...dwindles, and decays ; And countless generations of mankind Depart ; and leave no vestige where they trod. We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love ; And, even...and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend. But what is error ? " — " Answer he who can ! " The Sceptic somewhat haughtily exclaimed : " Love, Hope,... | |
| 1844 - 452 pages
...little fraction of science which one may have be imparted with all speed ? " Our reply is this : man is not wholly made up of intellect. In most specimens...they are associated with many and gross errors of belief—still they are primal constituents of happiness and worth. The errors are in a great degree... | |
| 1844 - 292 pages
...without which, it may possess merits, but cannot be true to itself. Wordsworth says, finely and truly : " We live by admiration, hope, and love ; And even as these are well ov wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend." It is because these high faculties are suffered to... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...dwindles, and decays ; And countless generations of mankind Depart ; and leave no vestige where they trod. We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love ; And, even...and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend. But what is error !" — "Answer he who can !" The Sceptic somewhat haughtily exclaimed : " Love, Hope,... | |
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