| Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - 1894 - 438 pages
...the common day.' If Wordsworth, thus, as it were, echoing the great conception of Francis Bacon, ' Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation,' perhaps the poet and the essayist may help us with Hegel to rate the Mind — the Mind of Man — at... | |
| Washington Gladden - 1895 - 320 pages
...are literally walking and working with God ! Was not the poet's aim a noble one when he cried, — " By words Which speak of nothing more than what we...and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures "? ; It is not needful to speak of more than what we are, — of more than what the humblest honest... | |
| Henry Clark Powell - 1896 - 524 pages
...preface to the 1814 edition of the Excursion, in which he explains his aim, are memorable — " . . .by words Which speak of nothing more than what we...sensual from their sleep Of death, and win the vacant aud the vain To noble raptures ; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual mind (And... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1897 - 654 pages
...shall find these A simple produce of the common day. 55 — I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of...we are, Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep 60 Of Death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures ; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1897 - 648 pages
...shall find these A simple produce of the common day. 55 — I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of...we are, Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep 6° Of Death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures ; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely... | |
| Laurie Magnus - 1897 - 512 pages
...The Recluse* the expression is more restrained and is characteristic of Wordsworth at his highest : " By words Which speak of nothing more than what we...and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures ; . . . — Such grateful haunts foregoing, if I oft Must turn elsewhere, — to travel near the tribes... | |
| John De Fraine - 1900 - 142 pages
...you here, promote what Tennyson beautifully calls ' the common love of good ' ; will rouse the sinful from their sleep of death, and win the vacant and the vain to a heavenlier and a better life. Now I don't wish tc tire you, but there are a few words I should like... | |
| William Copeland Bowie - 1901 - 392 pages
...shall find these A simple product of the common day. — I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of...from their sleep Of Death, and win the vacant and vain To noble raptures.' But what of the rank and file of humanity ? Is this vision of glory for them... | |
| w. copeland bowie - 1901 - 392 pages
...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...from their sleep Of Death, and win the vacant and vain To noble raptures.' But what of the rank and file of humanity ? Is this vision of glory for them... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1902 - 850 pages
...lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation:—and, by wordi Which tf eak of nothing mart than what we are, Would I arouse the sensual from...proclaims How exquisitely the individual mind (And the progres-ive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species) to the external world Is fitted :—and how... | |
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