 But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in...  Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions - Page 588by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 804 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1808 - 532 pages
...eternal {Hence : truths that wake, To perifh never ; Which neither liilat-nofs, nor mad endeavour, Nor man nor boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolifli or deftroy ! Hence, in a feafbn of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our fouls have fight... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pages
...Thing surpriz'd : But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day,...master light of all our seeing ; Uphold us, cherish us, and make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence : truths that wake, To... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...guilty, Thing surpriz'd: But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing ; , 155 Uphold us, cherish us, and make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...Thing surprized ! But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day,...perish never ; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour, VOL. II. AA Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...Thing surprized ! But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day,...Are yet a master light of all our seeing ; Uphold us — cherish-i-and have power to make . Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 316 pages
...thing.surprised ! But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day,...perish never : Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour Nor man nor boy Nor all that is at enmity with joy Can utterly abolish or destroy! Hence,... | |
 | England - 1840 - 876 pages
...and of partial endeavour, from the acknowledgment and influence of those " high instincts" which " Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our sceing ;" to submission to the predominance of unworthy and petty conventions, which in constant succession... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1818 - 390 pages
...guilty Thing surprized! But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may. Are yet the fountain light of all our day,...Are yet a master light of all our seeing ; Uphold as — cherish — and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1879 - 822 pages
...higher than which do they go. Against these have arisen the spiritual protests — " Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet the master light of all our being." These declarations are not protests so much as higher assertions... | |
 | 1821 - 420 pages
...These " shadowy recollections," then, " are the master-light of all our seeing ;" they " cherish us — and have power to make " Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence." And then for the retrospect which a meditative and imaginative mind... | |
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