...glimpse of Cam, And at the Hoop alighted, famous inn." That last line shows excellently how a poet may sink with his subject by resolving not to sink with...stood Of Newton with his prism and silent face, The marhle index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone." But the supreme poet...

...knowledge of science did not make him a disbeliever in revealed religion. Cf. Wordsworth, 'Prelude': — " Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble...Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone." 255. John Milton (1608-1674) sang of heaven and hell in his great epic, 'Paradise Lost' (1667). 257....

...Verulam " is for ever seated, and where, as Wordsworth sings, "the statue stands Of Newton with liis prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind...Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone"?* And besides its " famous men," who by great deeds or by immortal writings or discoveries have made...

...easy'to date. At Trinity College, Cambridge, is his celebrated statue of Newton (1755) — Roucliffe With his prism and silent face, The marble index of...ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone — which Words worth (from whose ' Prelude'the lines are taken) used to watch on moonlight nights...

...— , clsm' 'And from my pillow, looking forth by light Of Moon or favouring Stars, I could behold The antechapel where the statue stood Of Newton with...Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone/ But it also contains the no less well-known, but most inglorious line : 1 So Hartmann, in Wulker, more...

...But an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave. ibid. Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone. The Prelude. Book Hi 1 See Milton, page 239....

...of vision that, one may think, should have been awakened daily by the noble statue in the antechapel of Newton " with his prism and silent face ; The marble index of mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone." The teaching was undoubtedly technical...

...But an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave. /Mj. Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone. The Prelude. £ooh Hi. Another morn Kisen on...

...neighbour too ; And 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. I was disturbed at times by prudent thoughts, Wishing to hope without a hope, some fears About my future...

...forth by light Of moon or favouring stars, I could behold The antechapel where the statue stood 60 Of Newton with his prism and silent face, The marble...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, iWith...