The baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that 'this is I :' But as he grows he gathers much, And learns the use of 'I,' and 'me,' And finds 'I am not what I see, And other than... In Memoriam - Page 73by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 216 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Dana Boardman - 1880 - 356 pages
...this is I.' " But as he grows he gathers much, And learns the use of ' I ' and * me,' And finds 4 1 am not what I see, And other than the things I touch.'...frame that binds him in, His isolation grows defined." — ("Inr MEMOEIAM," xli7.) In fact, it is this sense of individuality which marks off man from the... | |
| Thomas Griffith - 1880 - 160 pages
...Compare Tennyson, In Mem. xliv. : ' As he grows he gathers much And learns the use of " I " and "me," And finds " I am not what I see," And other than the things I touch. ' It is curious to observe how Mr. Clifford, notwithstanding the wonderful clearness and beauty of... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1881 - 742 pages
...thought that ' this is I :' But as he grows he gathers much, And learns the use of 'I,' and ' me,' And finds ' I am not what I see, And other than the...separate mind From whence clear memory may begin As thro' the frame that binds him in His isolation grows denned. This use may lie in blood and breath,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1882 - 656 pages
...thought that " this is I " : But as he grows he gathers much, And learns the use of "I, "and "me,' And finds " I am not what I see, And other than the...separate mind From whence clear memory may begin, As thro' the frame that binds him in His isolation grows defined. This use may lie in blood and bre«th,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1883 - 740 pages
...than the things I touch." So rounds he to a separate mind From whence clear memory may begin, As thro' the frame that binds him in His isolation grows defined....learn himself anew, Beyond the second birth of Death. WE ranging down the lower track, The path we came by, thorn and flower, Is shadow'd by the growing... | |
| Alfred Williams Momerie - 1883 - 178 pages
...He never thought that this is I. But as he grows, he gathers much, And learns the use of I and Me, And finds I am not what I see, And other than the...clear memory may begin, As through the frame that bounds him in, His isolation grows defined." The fact that the complete knowledge of self is a gradual... | |
| Frederick Denison Maurice - 1883 - 202 pages
...never thought that this is I: But as he grows he gathers much, And learns the use of 'I' and 'me,' And finds I am not what I see, And other than the...he to a separate mind, From whence clear memory may hegin, As through the frame that bounds him in, His isolation grows denned. Well, Fichte's lot was... | |
| Sidney Lanier - 1883 - 312 pages
...gathers much, And learns the use of ' I ' and ' me, ' Jjid finds, ' I am not what I see, And otht' than the things I touch. ' So rounds he to a separate mind From whence clear memory may begin, As thro' the frame that binds him in His isolation grows denned. This use may lie in blood and breath,... | |
| Noah Porter - 1883 - 714 pages
...Ha* never thought that this Is I . Bnt as he grows, he gathers much, And learns the use of I and me, And finds I am not what I see, And other than the things I touch ; Bo rounds he to a separate mind. From whence clear memory may begin, As thro' the frame that binds... | |
| Edward Judson - 1883 - 670 pages
...consciousness of his being and power. " But as he grows he gathers much, And learns the use of '/' and 'Me,' And finds ' I am not what I see, And other than the things I touch.' " In the history of a social body, as well as of the human infant, the period of self-consciousness... | |
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