 To thee this solitude, this place, these rural meditations are sacred; whilst thus inspired with harmony of thought, though unconfined by words, and in loose numbers, I sing of Nature's order in created beings, and celebrate the beauties which resolve...  Essays on Freethinking and Plainspeaking - Page 260by Leslie Stephen - 1908 - 410 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1873 - 852 pages
...loose numbers, I sing of nature's order in created things, and celebrate the beauties which revolve in thee, the source and principle of all beauty and...light, in the animal creation and in natural scenery. .(M'iraliste, Pt. III. § i.) Pope or Wordsworth — for the two have some points in common — may... | |
 | 1873 - 808 pages
...loose numbers, I sing of nature's order in created things, and celebrate the beauties which revolve in thee, the source and principle of all beauty and...light, in the animal creation and in natural scenery. (Jfi-raZw/e, Pt. III. § i.) Pope or Wordsworth — for the two have Borne points in common — may... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1876 - 498 pages
...these rural meditations are sacred ; whilst thus inspired with harmony of thought, though uninspired by words and in loose numbers, I sing of nature's...of all beauty and perfection.' ' There is beauty, as he goes on to show, in this queer compromise between blank verse and prose, which naturally embodies... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1876 - 494 pages
...these rural meditations are sacred ; whilst thus inspired with harmony of thought, though uninspired by words and in loose numbers, I sing of nature's...source and principle of all beauty and perfection.' 1 There is beauty, as he goes on to show, in this queer compromise between blank verse and prose, which... | |
 | Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury - 1900 - 396 pages
...presented ! O mighty Nature ! wise substitute of Providence ! impowered creatress ! Or thou impowering Deity, supreme creator ! Thee I invoke and thee alone...source and principle of all beauty and perfection. " Thy being is boundless, unsearchable, impenetrable. In thy immensity all thought is lost, fancy gives... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 496 pages
...these rural meditations are sacred; whilst thus inspired with harmony of thought, though uninspired by words and in loose numbers, I sing of nature's...in Thee, the source and principle of all beauty and perfection.'1 There is beauty, as he goes on to show, in this queer compromise between blank verse... | |
 | John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - 1915 - 462 pages
...nature, from which I quote two invocations to illustrate the tenor of a deist's notion of God and nature: "To thee this solitude, this place, these rural meditations...source and principle of all beauty and perfection" ; "And since nor vain curiosity, nor fond conceit, nor love of aught save thee alone inspires me with... | |
 | Richard Müller - 1916 - 108 pages
...these rural meditations are sacred ; whilst thus inspired with harmony of thought, though unconfmed by words, and in loose numbers, I sing of Nature's...source and principle of all beauty and perfection." ift ïein 9îaum für jene Seräcfiter non ©ottesorbnung unb œurbe, rote fie *\iä) in bem ïnpus... | |
 | 1917 - 692 pages
...solitude, this place, these rural meditations are sacred; whilst thus inspired with harmony of thought ... I sing of Nature's order in created beings, and celebrate...source and principle of all beauty and perfection." The full significance of such general statements can be understood only by reference to his system... | |
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