| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1859 - 618 pages
...The eye — it can not choose but see ; We can not 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... | |
| American literature - 1859 - 620 pages
...The eye — it can not choose but see ; We can not 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... | |
| 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 our minds impress: That we can feed this mind of ours, In a wise passiveness. Think yon, 'mid all this mighty sum, Of things for... | |
| Eneas Sweetland Dallas - England - 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 - 296 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 - Clergy - 1861 - 482 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 sura, Of things... | |
| Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd, Recreations - Conduct of life - 1861 - 474 pages
...— it cannot choose but 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...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 for,... | |
| 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... | |
| John Alfred Langford - England - 1862 - 310 pages
...cannot bid the ear be still ; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against, or with, our will. " Not 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 this mighty hum Of things for ever... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1862 - 454 pages
...forever speaking, That nothing of itself will come, But we must still be seeking?" 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." BOURRIENNE mentions a mode of abridging the... | |
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