 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...plougbshare, died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love. Poems composed in Summer of1^T,. xxxvii. 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. Expostulation and Reply. 1 The pen wherewith thou... | |
 | William Forsyth - Criticism - 1874 - 620 pages
...a reprehensible indifference to figures, facts, and calculations. But I hold with Wordsworth : — 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. One of the most characteristic parts of the Fair... | |
 | 1874 - 588 pages
...beach and gaze away the day — impressed more strongly than ever with the sentiment of Wordsworth : " Nor less I deem that there are powers, Which of themselves our minds impress, That we can feel this mind of ours, In a wise pasaiveness. Think yon 'mid all the mighty stun, Of things forever... | |
 | Dorothy Wordsworth - Scotland - 1874 - 378 pages
...forms of nature. Rather, I believe, his feeling would be — silence is best. Has he not reminded us that ' There are powers Which of themselves our minds impress ; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness ' ? It was just because he could present to nature... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 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 for... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...ploughshare, died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love. Poems composed in Summer oj 1833. xjcxvii. 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. Expostulation and Reply. 1 The pen wherewith thou... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Society of Friends - 1876 - 152 pages
...Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against or with our will. *See Lyrical Ballads, vol. i: p. I. j " 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 this mighty sum Of things... | |
 | William Parsons Atkinson - Books and reading - 1878 - 84 pages
...into a whole ; and though this is done partly in the poet's " wise passiveness," * yet that wise * " 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." WORDSWORTH. passiveness is never earned save by... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1879 - 390 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 for... | |
 | Maria J. Greer - Children's stories - 1879 - 390 pages
...question in their vicinity, and mine with my mother was speedily interrupted. CHAPTER XVI. MY BIRTHDAY. " 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." WORDSWORTH. THE house was brilliantly lighted up,... | |
| |
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. 
