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" Turned inward, — to examine of what stuff Time's fetters are composed; and life was put To inquisition, long and profitless ! By pain of heart — now checked — and now impelled The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a... "
Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc - Page 235
edited by - 1817
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 3

1815 - 670 pages
...put To inquisition, long and. profitless I By pain of heart — now checked — and now impelled— The intellectual Power, through words and things,...perilous way ! And from those transports, and these toils abgtrase, Srme trace am I enabled to retain Of tiuie, else lost ;- existing unto me Only by records...
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The British Critic: A New Review, Volume 3

1815 - 698 pages
...fetters are compos'd, and life was put To inquisition long and profitless. By pain of heart, now check'd, and now impell'd, The intellectual Power, through...things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way." *• He was awakened from his trance of sorrows by the French Revolution, and for a time felt all the...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 3; Volume 21

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1815 - 702 pages
...of heart — now checked — and now impelled— The intellectual Power, through words and tilings, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way ! And from those transports, and these toils abstruse, Seme trace am I enabled to retain Of time, else lost ; — existing unto me Only by records in myself...
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The Messiah, a poem

Robert Montgomery - 1832 - 330 pages
...Without an atom of defiling self To mar perfection with a stain of man! END OF BOOK I. BOOK THE SECOND. The intellectual Power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way. WORDSWORTH. Melior origo nos expectat, alius rerum status. Dies iste, quem ianquam extremum reformidas,...
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The Messiah, a poem

Robert Montgomery - 1832 - 474 pages
...defiling self To mar perfection with a stain of man ! END oF nooK I. BOOK THE SECOND. The intelleetual Power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way. WORDSWORTH. Melior origo nos expeetat, alius rerum status. Dies isle, quern laniluam extremum reformidas,...
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Nugae Literariae: Prose and Verse

Richard Winter Hamilton - 1841 - 662 pages
...have been ! We are reminded of the expressive lines of Wordsworth, though differently applied : •' The Intellectual Power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way."* The inventions of that period were also most important. The use of the compass was now first observed....
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The London University Magazine, Volume 1

1842 - 416 pages
...life was put To inquisition long and profitless ! By pain of heart, uow checked, and now impelled, The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way. . For all this we claim no praise short of that due, not to superiority, but to perfection. There is...
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The Life of the Rev. Joseph Blanco White: With Portions of His ..., Volume 2

Joseph Blanco White - 1845 - 386 pages
...which you have gone through. There is none to which the lines of Wordsworth are more applicable: " The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way." The most important objects with which the mind is familiar are changing their aspects as we move forward,...
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The life of the rev. Joseph Blanco White, written by himself. Ed ..., Volume 2

Joseph Blanco White - 1845 - 390 pages
...which you have gone through. There is none to which the lines of Wordsworth are more applicable: " The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way." The most important objects with which the mind is fami-liar are changing their aspects as we move forward,...
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Contributions to the Edinburgh Review by Francis Jeffrey, Volume 2

Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 pages
...terrible to our feelings in the imagery of these three lines — " By pain of heart, now check 'd, and now impell'd, The Intellectual Power, through...things, Went sounding on, — a dim and perilous way ! " At last he is roused from this dejected mood, by the glorious promises which seemed held out to...
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