 | Richard Cockburn Maclaurin - Science - 1909 - 324 pages
...Wordsworth, and he tells us how, looking from his rooms in a neighboring college, he could behold — " The antechapel where the statue stood Of Newton with...prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone." What epoch-making voyages were his ! The... | |
 | 1910 - 852 pages
...Prelude too contains some of Wordsworth's most famous lines, familiar by constant quotation, such as : " Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble...ever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone." or " There is One great society alone on earth : The noble Living and the noble Dead." I have only... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1910 - 322 pages
...and their "humming sound, less tunable than bees," he passed to the description of Newton's statue: The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone? And there are amid his lesser works that waver "between silliness and pathos," whole poems — it is... | |
 | Sydney Waterlow - Cambridge (England) - 1912 - 244 pages
...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. Full oft the quiet and exalted thoughts Of loneliness gave way to empty noise And superficial pastimes;... | |
 | Paul B. Scheurer, G. Debrock - History - 1988 - 406 pages
...Coleridge). His reflection upon watching Newton's statue at Trinity College, Cambridge, is well known: The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone. I turn my eyes to the Schools & Universities of Europe And there behold the Loom of Locke whose Woof... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 978 pages
...The Prelude's majestic vision comes back full circle to Pope's epitaph of the wondrous enlightener: Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and...ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone. (Prelude [1850], III, 11. 61-3) * Ibid. " Ibid., p. 654. 18 The Botanical Garden; A Poem in Two Parts... | |
 | Alan J. Friedman, Carol C. Donley - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 244 pages
...pervasive, convincing, and successful Newtonian physics had been. Newtonian mechanics and literary responses Of Newton with his prism and silent face, The marble...ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone. Wordsworth Time, space, and motion are fundamental terms that every civilization defines in attempting... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...truth lay all undiscovered before me. Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) English mathematician, physicist The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) English poet of a statue of Newton Nature and nature's laws lay hid... | |
 | W. K. Thomas, Warren U. Ober - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 348 pages
...my neighbour, too; And from my Pillow when the silver Moon Shone fair I could behold solemnly near The Antechapel where the Statue stood Of Newton, with his Prism and silent Face. MS. D (Transcribed in MSS. Verse 23 (DC MS. 124) by Mary Wordsworth, possibly "during December 1831... | |
 | Bruce Mazlish - Communities - 1989 - 348 pages
...especially in his magnificent lines on the statue of Newton, ". . . with his prism and silent face,/The marble index of a mind for ever /Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone,"42 but Wordsworth did not sufficiently recognize what he had caught in his image. As with science,... | |
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The antechapel where the statue stood Of Newton with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone. 
