| 1873 - 542 pages
...see, We cannot bid the far be still ; Our bodies feel, where e'er they be, Against or with our will. Nor less I deem that there are powers Which of themselves our minds impress, That we c&nfeed this mind of ours In a wife passiveness. There is among teachers a lamentable lack of general... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 pages
...see ; We cannot bid the ear be still ; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against or with our will Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress ; * Written at Alfoxden in 1793. Mr. Wordsworth said this poem waa a favorite with tin; Quakers. That... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1858 - 550 pages
...; We cannot bid the ear be still ; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against, or with our will. I "Nor less I deem that there are powers Which of themselves...feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. " Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum Of things for ever speaking, That nothing of itself will come, But we... | |
| 1859 - 806 pages
...; We cannot bid the ear be still : Onr bodies feel, where'er they be, Against or with our will. Kor less I deem that there are Powers, Which of themselves...passiveness. Think yon, 'mid all this mighty sum, Of things for ever speaking, That nothing of itself will come, But we must still be seeking ? Then ask not wherefore,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1859 - 618 pages
...; We can not bid the ear be still : Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against or with our will. " Nor less I deem that there are Powers, Which of themselves...feed this mind of ours, In a wise passiveness. "Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum, Of things forever speaking, That nothing of itself will come, But we... | |
| Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1868 - 592 pages
...unwise preference of merely visible products over all other results whatever. Nor less, says Wordsworth, I deem that there are powers Which of themselves our minds impress, And we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. SERVANTS' FEES. THE playful satire of the... | |
| D R. M'Nab - 1860 - 298 pages
...burden in that mystery; it is simply quiet beneath the over-arching influences, and purely recipient. Nor less I deem, that there are powers Which of themselves our minds impress, And we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. WORDSWORTH. There is a pleasure in the pathless... | |
| Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd, Recreations - 1861 - 474 pages
...see; We cannot bid the ear be still: Our bodies feel, where'er they be, o Against or with our will. Nor less I deem that there are Powers, Which of themselves...feed this mind of ours, In a wise passiveness. Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum, Of things for, ever speaking, That nothing of itself will come, But... | |
| Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1861 - 468 pages
...but see; We cannot bid the ear be still: Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against or with our will. Nor less I deem that there are Powers, Which of themselves...feed this mind of ours, In a wise passiveness. Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum, Of things for ever speaking, That nothing of itself will come, But we... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1861 - 388 pages
...forever speaking, That nothing of itself vr'M come, But we must still be seeking 1 " And again : — " Nor less I deem that there are powers Which of themselves our minds impress ; And we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness." These cases of infancy, reached at intervals... | |
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