The tendency, too potent in itself, Of use and custom to bow down the soul Under a growing weight of vulgar sense, And substitute a universe of death For that which moves with light and life informed, Actual, divine, and true. Littell's Living Age - Seite 3551895Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1889 - 614 Seiten
...feeling of the living soul of Nature. He analysed, divided, isolated phenomena, and so ' substitutes a universe of death For that which moves with light and life informed, Actual, divine and true.' For the time he lapsed into a mere critic. On the side of Nature he became a superficial observer of... | |
| 1863 - 432 Seiten
...aid The tendency, too potent in itself, Of use and custom to bow down the soul Under a growing weight of vulgar sense. And substitute a universe of death...light and life informed, Actual, divine, and true." Here he touches the sublime key-note of his whole existence, and throws a flash of glorious light on... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1850 - 412 Seiten
...aid The tendency, too potent in itself, Of use and custom to bow down the soul Under a growing weight of vulgar sense, And substitute a universe of death...light and life informed, Actual, divine, and true. To fear and love. • To love as prime and chief, for there fear ends, Be this ascribed; to early intercourse,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 Seiten
...aid The tendency, too potent in itself, Of use and custom to bow down the soul Under a growing weight whom we beh 6 , To fear and love, To love as prime and chief, for there fear ends, Be this ascribed ; to early intercourse,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1854 - 432 Seiten
...aid The tendency, too potent in itself, Of use and custom to bow down the soul Under a growing weight of vulgar sense, And substitute a universe of death...light and life informed, Actual, divine, and true. To fear and love, To love as prime and chief, for there fear ends, Be this ascribed ; to early intercourse,... | |
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870 - 382 Seiten
...aid The tendency, too potent in itself, Of use and custom to bow down the soul Under a growing weight of vulgar sense, And substitute a universe of death...light and life informed, Actual, divine, and true. To fear and love, To love as prime and chief, for there fear ends, Be this ascribed ; to early intercourse,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1870 - 382 Seiten
...aid The tendency, too potent in itself, Of use and custom to bow down the soul Under a growing weight of vulgar sense, And substitute a universe of death...light and life informed} Actual, divine, and true. To fear and love, To love as prime and chief, for there fear ends, Be this ascribed ; to early intercourse,... | |
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 Seiten
...itself. Of use and custom to how down the soul Under a growing weight of vulgar sense, And suhstitute a universe of death For that which moves with light and life informed, Actual, divine, and true. To fear and love, To love as prime and chief, for there fear ends, Be this aserihed ; to early intereourse,... | |
| Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1874 - 396 Seiten
...worldliness, never allowed the tendency Of use and custom to bow down the soul Under a growing weight of vulgar sense, And substitute a universe of death,...light and life informed, Actual, divine, and true. It was fear and love that had done this — and here he is referring to his boyish time — but only... | |
| Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1875 - 374 Seiten
...worldliness, never allowed the tendency Of use and custom to bow down the soul Under a growing weight of vulgar sense, And substitute a universe of death,...light and life informed, Actual, divine, and true. It was fear and love that had done this—and here he is referring to his boyish time—but only love... | |
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