 I arouse the sensual from their sleep Of death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species) to the external world Is...  The Excursion: A Poem - Page xiiiby William Wordsworth - 1841 - 374 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1889 - 614 pages
...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...vacant and the vain To noble raptures ; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1814 - 476 pages
...chaunt, 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...vacant and the vain To noble raptures ; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole... | |
 | 1815 - 394 pages
...chaunt in lonely peace, the sponsal verse Of this great consummation ; — and by words Which speak of nothing more than what we are Would I arouse the...and the vain To noble raptures ; — while my voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual mind (And the progressive povv'rs perhaps no less Of the whole... | |
 | 1838 - 884 pages
...Of this great consummation : — and by words Which speak of nothing more than what we are, W'ould 1 arouse the sensual from their sleep Of death, and...vacant and the vain To noble raptures ; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual mind CAnd the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole... | |
 | 1822 - 384 pages
...The author's design was the same with that of the great philosophical poet of our own days, to rouse the sensual from their sleep Of death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures, by an exhibition of their own capabilities of excellence and enjoyment. This noble design shines through... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1822 - 392 pages
...The author's design was the same with that of the great philosophical poet of our own days, to rouse the sensual from their sleep Of death, and win the vacant and the vaiu To noble raptures, by an exhibition of their own capabilities of excellence and enjoyment. This... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 456 pages
...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...vacant and the vain To noble raptures ; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 pages
...verse Of this great consummation : — and, by words Which speak of nothing more than what we arc. Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep Of Death,...vacant and the vain To noble raptures; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole... | |
 | 1839 - 512 pages
...sorrowful, and with every joyful heart in the universe ; he finds " grateful haunts" in studying " How exquisitely the individual mind (And the progressive...external world Is fitted ; — and how exquisitely, too, The external world is fitted to the mind." WorJa, p. 394. But, on the other hand, he finds it hard... | |
 | 1838 - 876 pages
...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...vacant and the vain To noble raptures ; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no lew Of the whole... | |
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