 | Education - 1909 - 558 pages
...infinitesimal fraction of a worldkin, yet — produce ! Wordsworth writes of the significance of nature: Wisdom and Spirit of the Universe ! Thou soul that art the eternity of thought not in vain By day and starlight thus from my first down Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - English literature - 1910 - 778 pages
...not live Like living men, moved slowly through the mind By day, and were a trouble to my dreams. 400 t of that immortal That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus... | |
 | Elias Hershey Sneath - 1912 - 344 pages
...experiences from the dawn of childhood, he affirms, was intertwining passions that build up the human soul : Wisdom and Spirit of the universe ! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought, That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus... | |
 | Indiana University - Limestone - 1913 - 536 pages
...moral pleasure. Wordsworth combines the idea with a more vividly sensuous picture of his own emotion: Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou Soul that, art the Eternity of thought ! That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion ! not in vain By day or star-light,... | |
 | Terrot Reaveley Glover - English literature - 1915 - 346 pages
...perhaps there was Something in Nature, if we are to give real meaning to his words of later years. Wisdom and Spirit of the Universe ! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought, That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or starlight thus... | |
 | English periodicals - 1926 - 964 pages
...never felt with so strange a thrill ?). It ends in such thought as that of the famous invocation : Wisdom and Spirit of the Universe ! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought. That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or starlight thus... | |
 | W. K. Thomas, Warren U. Ober - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 348 pages
...then have been immediately confirmed by Wordsworth's remembering what he himself had called God, the "Wisdom and Spirit of the Universe": "Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought, / That giv'st to forms and images a breath / And everlasting Motion."4 Wordsworth accordingly reversed... | |
 | Stephen Gill - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 132 pages
...poem itself. Take, for example, the apostrophe which follows the 'Stolen Boat' episode (I, 427-40). Wisdom and spirit of the universe, Thou soul that art the eternity of thought. That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion - not in vain, By day or star-light,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion. 98 did die to look on. (I, iv) 5 The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, CH; EnRP; FaBoPP; GN; HAP; NOBE; NoP;... | |
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Wisdom and spirit of the universe ! Thou soul that art the eternity of thought, That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions... 
