 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1899 - 1416 pages
...stiifc: Come, hear the woodland linnet. How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. And hark! how blithe the throstle sings! He, too,...into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher. Enough of Science and of Art; Close up these barren leaves: Come forth, and bring with you a heart... | |
 | Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - 1870 - 230 pages
...learn to be wise in his vocation. For suitable preparation, the first, second, and third thing is, to " Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher." The " new education," . as the French call it, begins with children in the mother's arms. Froebel had... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1871 - 622 pages
...Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music ! — on my life There's more of wisdom in it. And hark ! how blithe the throstle sings ! He, too,...into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher. She has a world of ready wealth, Our minds and hearts to bless— Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health,... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1871 - 542 pages
...strife, Come hear the woodland linnet ; How sweet his music — on my life There's more of wisdom in it. And hark ! how blithe the throstle sings, He too is...the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher." Chaucer goes on : " Of all the flowers in the mead I love most those flowers white and red, such as... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1871 - 350 pages
...Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feel this mind of ours In a wiee passiveness. And hark ! how blithe the throstle sings ! He, too,...into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher. She has a world of ready wealth, Our minds and hearts to bless, — Spontaneous wisdom breathed by... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1871 - 630 pages
...sweet his music I on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. And hark ! how blithe the throstle sin^s ! He, too, is no mean preacher : Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher. She has a world of ready wealth, Our minds and hearts to bless — Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health,... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 pages
...his music ! on my life, there's more of wisdom in it. And hark ! how hlithe the throstle sin^s ! le, too, is no mean preacher : Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature he your teacher. She has a world of ready wealth, 3ur minds and hearts to hless — Spontaneous wisdom... | |
 | 1871 - 528 pages
...on my life There's more of wisdom in it. And hark ! how hlithe the throstle sings, He too is no moan preacher ; Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher." Chaucer goes on : " Of all the flowers in the mead I love most those flowers white and red, such as... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pages
...strife : Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music ! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. And hark ! how blithe the throstle sings ! He, too,...into the light of things, Let nature be your teacher. She has a world of ready wealth, Our minds and hearts to bless — Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health,... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1872 - 514 pages
...lexicon," than to mummy our benumbed souls with the circumvolutions of twenty thousand books. " For hark ! how blithe the throstle sings ! He, too, is...the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher." There, in Wordsworth as in Mrs. Browning, we have in conjunction the thrush and the light. Sweetness... | |
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One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good Than all the sages can. 
