 I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation — and, by words Which speak of nothing more than what we are, Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep Of Death, and win the vacant...  The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Seite xvvon William Wordsworth - 1827Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | George Ripley - 1840 - 414 Seiten
...nature, to rebuke their proud disdain of divine things, and, like the great moral poet of England, To arouse the sensual from their sleep Of Death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures. " I know," says he, " that it is quite as little your custom to honor the Deity in the holy stillness... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1841 - 400 Seiten
...chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation: — and, by words Which speaJc of nothing more than what we are, Would I arouse the...vacant and the vain To noble raptures ; while my voice proclaim* How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1887 - 490 Seiten
...his high calling as a spiritual teacher is none the less to be fulfilled : — " and by words Which speak of nothing more than what we are, Would I arouse...voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual mind * * * * to the external world Is fitted, and how exquisitely too, (Theme this but little heard of among... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 548 Seiten
...the spousal verse Of this great consummation ; and by words Which speak of nothing more than what ire are, Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep Of...and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures." In the same spirit he speaks of the beautiful. " Beauty — a living Presence of the earth, Surpassing... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 Seiten
...look Into our minds, into the mind of man, My haunt, and the main region of my song. Hy words Which speak of nothing more than what we are. Would I arouse...sleep Of death, and win the vacant and the vain To nobto raptures ; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual mind (And the progressive... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 Seiten
...haunt, and the main region of my song. Ry words Which speak of nothing more than what we are, Would 1 arouse the sensual from their sleep Of death, and...the vain To noble raptures; while my voice proclaims Haw exquisitely the individnal mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species)... | |
 | George Washington Light - 1847 - 398 Seiten
...nature of man. The truth implied in Wordsworth's allusion to this point is too clear to be questioned : "How exquisitely the individual mind (And the progressive...external world Is fitted : — and how exquisitely, too, The external world is fitted to the mind." The universe is the medium through which our great Parent... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 Seiten
...arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation ; and by words Which speak of nothing more than what we are, Would I arouse...and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures." In the same spirit he speaks of the beautiful. " Beauty, — a living Presence of the earth, Surpassing... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 Seiten
...chant, in lonely peace, the ьроива! verse Of this great consummation : — and, by words Which speak of nothing more than what we are. Would I arouse the непьиа! frum their sleep Of Death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures ; while... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1850 - 620 Seiten
...Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation : — and, by words Which speak of nothing more than what we are, Would I arouse...individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no lesa Of the whole species) to the external World Is fitted : — and how exquisitely, too — Theme... | |
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