| William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...The eye — it cannot choose but see ; " We cannot bid the ear be still ; " Our bodies feel, where'er they be, " Against, or with our will. " Nor less I...Which of themselves our minds impress ; " That we can feed this mind of ours " In a wise passiveness. " Think you, mid all this mighty sum " Of things... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...The eye — it cannot choose but see ; " We cannot bid the ear be still ; " Our bodies feel, where'er they be, " Against, or with our will. " Nor less I...Which of themselves our minds impress ; " That we can feed this mind of ours " In a wise passiveness. " Think you, mid all this mighty sum " Of things... | |
| British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...'•The eye — it cannot choose but see; We cannot bid the car be still ; Our^ bodies feel, where'er , * can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. Think yon, 'mid all this mighty sum Of things for... | |
| William Russell - Education - 1828 - 910 pages
...to be attended to, as an intimation of providence to relax. V^« would not be understood to deny ' That there are powers Which of themselves our minds impress ; That we may feed these minds of ours In a wise passiveness,' a doctrine which is full of comfort to the sick... | |
| Luke Howard - 1836 - 408 pages
...seems, better than his prose, the possibility of our being tanght much while we sit and do nothing. " Nor less I deem that there are powers Which of themselves our minds impress ; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.'"The thing here described is certainly true : on... | |
| Horace Binney Wallace - England - 1838 - 274 pages
...matured, and The eye can never choose 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...Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. " There is no form or phase of moral being in -which... | |
| United States - 1838 - 540 pages
...look into the higher nature of original truth, by Intuition, — no unreal function of our nature : Nor less I deem that there are powers, Which, of themselves, our minds impress; That we can feed these minds of ours, In a wise passiveness. But if it is precisely because the most creative... | |
| Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1840 - 430 pages
..." The eye, it cannot choose to see ; " We cannot bid the ear be still ; " Our bodies feel, where'er they be, " Against or with our will. " Nor less I...Which of themselves our minds impress ; " That we can feed that mind of oars " In a wise passiveness." LETTER X. Lnih Inn, 18"» July. TOIL must follow... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - Art - 1843 - 612 pages
...' The eye — it cannot choose 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...powers Which of themselves our minds impress ; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. • 'Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum Of things... | |
| 1843 - 602 pages
...see; We canuot bid the ear be still; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against, or with our will. 1 Nor less I deem that there are powers Which of themselves our minds impress] That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. •Think you, 'mid all ihis mighty sum Of things... | |
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