| Richard William Church - 1888 - 282 pages
...s!i«ll find tfieie A rimple produce of the foninum dag. — I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation : — and, bg word* Which speak of nothing more than wluti we are, Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep... | |
| Robert Perceval Graves - 1889 - 726 pages
...Wordsworth in the lines which form part of what he calls the Prospectus of his poem, ' The Recluse ' : — ' while my voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no leas Of the whole species) to the external World Is fitted : and how exquisitely, too, Theme this but... | |
| 1889 - 1264 pages
...discordant passions of humanity, but striving to ' win the vacant and the vain to noble raptures,' while he proclaims — How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no loss Of the whole species) to the external World Is fitted : and how exquisitely, too — Theme this... | |
| Lucy Larcom - 1892 - 248 pages
...Him as the Only One. Wordsworth's purpose bears witness to the truth of his spiritual insight : — " By words Which speak of nothing more than what we...and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures." 1 Stopford Brooke. He knew that the love of nature and the love of humanity are underneath, at their... | |
| William James Dawson - 1892 - 392 pages
...common day. I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal hour Of this great consummation : — and, by words Which...are, Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep Of Denth, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures ; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely... | |
| James Vila Blake - 1892 - 244 pages
...blissful hour arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verso Of this great cousumatiou ; and, by words Which speak of nothing more than what...are, Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep Of dtath, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures I" It will not be astray if the growth of... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1893 - 696 pages
...arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verss Of this great consummati: n : — and, by word* Which speak of nothing more than what we are, Would...the sensual from their sleep Of Death, and win the v.1cant and the vain To noble raptures; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual mind... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 860 pages
...chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verso Of this great consummatien: — and, by words Which *{eak of nothing more than what we are, Would I arouse the...proclaims How exquisitely the individual mind (And the proyres-ive powers perhaps no less Of the whole sp.-cies) to the exteraal world Is fitted : — and... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 pages
...chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verso Of this great consummate n : — and, by words Which i/wi of nothing more than what we are, Would I arouse the...proclaims How exquisitely the individual mind (And the progres-ive powers perh.ips no less Of the whole sp ciesl to the external world Is fitted : — and... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 pages
...peace, the spousal verto Of this great consummat1 n :—and, by words Which sfenk of nothing more lhan what we are, Would I arouse the sensual from their...proclaims How exquisitely the individual mind (And the progres-ive powers perhnps no less Of tlie whole sp.-cies) to the external world Is fitted :—and... | |
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