 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1882 - 720 pages
...* The eye — it cannot choose but sec; We cannot bid the ear bo 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1882 - 414 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 that there are Powers Whicli of themselves our minds impress ; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1883 - 734 pages
...reply. ' 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... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...Constable, Sonnet. Whose noble praise Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing. Dorothy Berry, Sonnet. 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 Jteply. Up ! up ! my Friend, and... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1883 - 866 pages
...sum uf things for ever speaking, That nothing of itself will come, But we must still be seeking Í Nor less I deem that there are powers, Which of themselves our minds impress ; And we can feed this heart of ours, In a wise passiveness." Again he says, " Impulses of deeper birth... | |
 | James Chandler - Poetry - 1984 - 338 pages
...follows: "The eye it cannot chuse 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." [17-24] Whatever interest this poem has must derive,... | |
 | Hendrik Roelof Rookmaaker - Poetry - 1984 - 232 pages
...rather more outspoken in this respect, as appears from the following lines of 'Expostulation and Reply', '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'. Perhaps the explicitness of these lines owes something... | |
 | Michael S. Kearns - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 278 pages
...bid the ear be still; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against or with our will. Nor less I dream that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. As Wordsworth expresses the concept, it is paradoxical:... | |
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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. 
