| English literature - 1863 - 432 pages
...lines, where he says that to all insensate things " I gave a moral life: I saw them feel, Or link'd them to some feeling : the great mass Lay bedded in...and all That I beheld respired with inward meaning! " This is the grand characteristic of his poetry : a creation of his own overlaying, and not distorting... | |
| 856 pages
...here : " To every natural form, rock, fruit or flower, Even the loose stones that cover the highway I gave a moral life : I saw them feel, Or linked them to some feeling." — p. 60. A process to a great extent original, and doubtless one of the secrets of Wordsworth's strength... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1850 - 388 pages
...subdued. To every natural form, rock, fruit or flower, Even the loose stones that cover the high-way, I gave a moral life : I saw them feel, Or linked them...That I beheld respired with inward meaning. Add that whatever of Terror or of Love Or Beauty, Nature's daily face put on From transitory passion, unto this... | |
| Robert Aspland - 1850 - 794 pages
...of meditation which the country had occasioned. To " Even the loose stones that cover the high-way I gave a moral life : I saw them feel, Or linked them to some feeling :" It raises a smile to read one famous scholastic term thus diverted, not perverted, from its ordinary... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...subdued. To every natural form, rock, fruit or flower, Even the loose stones that cover the highway, I gave a moral life: I saw them feel, Or linked them...all That I beheld respired with inward meaning. Add (hat whalc'er of Terror or of Lovo Or Benuty, Nature's daily face put on From transitory passion, unto... | |
| 1853 - 614 pages
...world. ' To every natural form, rock, fruit, or flower, Kven the looзo stones that cover the highway, l gave a moral life : I saw them feel, Or linked them to some feeling.' Every lover of his works can learn from them to do the same, and the conferring an additional sense... | |
| Wiltshire Stanton Austin, John Ralph - Poets laureate - 1853 - 658 pages
..." To every natural rock, or fruit, or flower, Even the loose stones that cover the highway, I gate a moral life, I saw them feel, Or linked them to some feeling." This would be harmless enthusiasm enough, were it not that an undue exultation of what is small has... | |
| Arminianism - 1869 - 1208 pages
...flower, Even the loose stones that cover the highway, I gave a moral life : I saw them feel, Or link'd them to some feeling : the great mass Lay bedded in...quickening soul, and all That I beheld respired with inward uieanin¿." Take another passage, one from the sixth book of the same poem, in which he describes,... | |
| William Wordsworth - Superexlibris - 1870 - 382 pages
...feel, j Or linked them to some feeling : the great mass ILay bedded in a quickening soul, and all <Fhat I beheld respired with inward meaning. Add that whate'er...Terror or of Love Or Beauty, Nature's daily face put on Prom transitory passion, unto this I was as sensitive as waters are To the sky's influence in a kindred... | |
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 pages
...suhdued, To every natural form, rock, fruit or flower, Even the loose stones that cover the high.way, I gave a moral life : I saw them feel, Or linked them to some feeling : the great mass I,ay hedded in a quickening soul, and all That I heheld respired with inward meaning. Add that whate'er... | |
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