 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1835 - 248 pages
...of music, the eloquence of art, or the impulse of poetic sentiment. 1 recognised, as never before, " That secret spirit of humanity, Which 'mid the calm...weeds and flowers, And silent overgrowings, still survives." Happily, then, was I located for experimenting in a new field of my favourite study. The... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1836 - 398 pages
...in the impotence of grief. Then towards the cottage I returned ; and traced Fondly, though with an interest more mild, That secret spirit of humanity...Of nature, mid her plants, and weeds, and flowers, And'silent overgrowings, still survived. The old Man, noting this, resumed, and said, " My Friend !... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1837 - 286 pages
...music, the eloquence of art, or the impulse of poetic sentiment. I recognised, as never before, " Thai secret spirit of humanity, Which 'mid the calm oblivious...weeds and flowers. And silent overgrowings, still survives.'' Happily, then, was I located for experimenting in a new field of my favorite study. The... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 422 pages
...grief. Then towards the cottage I return'd, and traced Fondly, though with an interest more mild, The secret spirit of humanity, Which, 'mid the calm, oblivious...weeds, and flowers, And silent overgrowings, still unrevived." Such musings receive the Pedlar's approbation, and he says — " My friend ! enough to... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 pages
...in the impotence of grief. Then towards the cottage I returned ; and traced Fondly, though with an interest more mild, That secret spirit of humanity...you have given, The purposes of wisdom ask no more : Nor more would she have craved as due to One Who, in her worst distress, had ofttimcs felt The unbounded... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...traced Fondly, though with an interest more mild, That secret spirit of humanity Which, 'mid the cahu oblivious tendencies Of nature, 'mid her plants, and...you have given, The purposes of wisdom ask no more : Nor more would she have craved as due to One Who, in her worst distress, had ofttimes felt The unbounded... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1847 - 404 pages
...in the impotence of grief. Then towards the cottage I returned ; and traced Fondly, though with an interest more mild, That secret spirit of humanity...you have given, The purposes of wisdom ask no more : Nor more would she have craved as due to One Who, in her worst distress, had ofttimes felt The unbounded... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1847 - 404 pages
...in the impotence of grief. Then towards the cottage I returned ; and traced Fondly, though with an interest more mild, -« That secret spirit of humanity...you have given, The purposes of wisdom ask no more : Nor more would she have craved as due to One Who, in her worst distress, had ofttimes felt The unbounded... | |
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 1847 - 374 pages
...heaven p. L., i. 516. from whence a voice From midst a golden cloud, thus mild was heard. Id., vi. 28. That secret spirit of humanity Which, 'mid the calm...flowers, And silent overgrowings, still survived. ' Tke Excursion, io Exercise. The man had laid a wager that he would swim across the river at its widest... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1849 - 380 pages
...heaven P. £., i. 516. from whence a voice From midst a golden cloud, thus mild was heard. Id., vi. 28. That secret spirit of humanity Which, 'mid the calm...flowers, And silent overgrowings, still survived. ' The Excursion, i.] Exercise. The man had laid a wager that he would swim across the river at its widest... | |
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mid the calm oblivious tendencies Of nature, 'mid her plants, and weeds, and flowers, And silent overgrowings, still survived. 
