 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...We cannot bid the ear be still ; " Our bodies feel, where'er they be, " Against, or with our will. " Nor less I deem that there are Powers " Which of themselves...alone, " Conversing as I may, " I sit upon this old gray stone, " And dream my time away." VI. THE TABLES TURNED; AN EVENING SCENE, ON THE SAME SUBJECT.... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...We cannot bid the ear be still ; " Our bodies feel, where'er they be, " Against, or with our will. " Nor less I deem that there are Powers " Which of themselves...of itself will come, " But we must still be seeking ? "o ' " — Then ask not wherefore, here, alone, " Conversing as I may, " I sit upon this old gray... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...see; We cannot bid the car be still ; Our^ bodies feel, where'er they be, Against, or with our will. Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves...feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. Think yon, 'mid all this mighty sum Of things for cter speaking. That nothing of itself will come, But we... | |
 | William Russell - 1828 - 910 pages
...to be attended to, as an intimation of providence to relax. V^« would not be understood to deny ' That there are powers Which of themselves our minds impress ; That we may feed these minds of ours In a wise passiveness,' a doctrine which is full of comfort to the sick... | |
 | Luke Howard - 1836 - 408 pages
...seems, better than his prose, the possibility of our being tanght much while we sit and do nothing. " Nor less I deem that there are powers Which of themselves...impress ; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.'"The thing here described is certainly true : on the other hand, it is said, " The devil... | |
 | 1836 - 346 pages
...our minds impns.. : That we can feed this miud of ours, In a wise passiveness. " Think you, mid alt this mighty sum . Of things for ever speaking, That nothing of itself will come, Hut we must still be seeking ' "One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man— Of moral... | |
 | Horace Binney Wallace - 1838 - 274 pages
...see ; We cannot bid the ear be still ; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against or with our will. Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves...can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. " There is no form or phase of moral being in -which there is not enwrapped a seed of wisdom. Suffering... | |
 | William Howitt - 1838 - 414 pages
...incidental. They were in the condition and state of mind of the old man in Wordsworth's ballad, who says — Think you, mid all this mighty sum Of things for ever...of itself will come, But we must still be seeking? That Homer had an eye for the sublime features of earth, the nobler forms of animal life, and phenomena... | |
 | 1838 - 540 pages
...look into the higher nature of original truth, by Intuition, — no unreal function of our nature : Nor less I deem that there are powers, Which, of themselves, our minds impress; That we can feed these minds of ours, In a wise passiveness. But if it is precisely because the most creative minds... | |
 | Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1840 - 430 pages
...We cannot bid the ear be still ; " Our bodies feel, where'er they be, " Against or with our will. " Nor less I deem that there are powers " Which of themselves our minds impress ; " That we can feed that mind of oars " In a wise passiveness." LETTER X. Lnih Inn, 18"» July. TOIL must follow rest.... | |
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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. 
