...MEMORIES OF CAMBRIDGE. FROM my pillow, looking forth by light Of moon or favouring stars, I could behold The antechapel where the statue stood Of Newton, with...prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever I835Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone. Ground where the grass had yielded to...

...no one can mistake, and which should be borne in mind as a "touchstone " to apply to other poetry: " The ante-chapel, where the statue stood Of Newton...Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone." Homer himself furnishes the best examples of the grand style in simplicity — "when a noble nature...

...could behold /The antechapel where the statue stood fo I Of Newton with his prism and silent face, IThe marble index of a mind for ever [Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone. Of College labours, of the Lecturer's room All studded round, as thick as chairs could stand, 65 With...

...n'est sans quelque trace (1) Prélude, III, 46-64. Les beaux vers de Wordsworth sur Newton : With bis prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging tbrough strange seas of Thought, alone. semblent inspirés des vers non moins beaux de Thomson : The...

...and he tells us : From my pillow, looking forth by light Of moon or favouring stars, I could behold The antechapel where the statue stood Of Newton with...ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone. During one of the College vacations Wordsworth went with a friend on a walking tour through France...

...Wordsworth, from his bed in the first court of St John's, could see, on a moonlight night, into Trinity antechapel, " where the statue stood Of Newton with...ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone" (iii. 60), yet he was unlikely to follow the fashion of the hour, and bow his intellect to Newton's...

...interest of the portrait. As Wordsworth detected in the silent face of Roubiliac's fine statue — " The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone." so we can see in this portrait the very living man who wrested from nature her most hidden secrets....

...interest of the portrait. As Wordsworth detected in the silent face of Roubiliac's fine statue — " The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone." so we can see in this portrait the very living man who wrested from nature her most hidden secrets....

...one can mistake, and which should be borne in mind as a " touchstone " to apply to other poetry: " The ante-chapel, where the statue stood Of Newton...Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone." Homer himself furnishes the best examples of the grand style in simplicity — " when a noble nature...

...Europe's teacher of science. Among England's greatest men of science was Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) — Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble...ever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. His work belongs properly to the domain of science, and not to that of literature. But inasmuch as...