 | 1896 - 858 pages
..." All that is, at all, Lasts ever, past recall, Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure." 4. "I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity." 5. Which of our well-known hymns do you think best suited to the use... | |
 | Jane Margaret Hooper - 1854 - 308 pages
...come to the castle. VOL. I. CHAPTER VI. A MORNING VISIT AND A WOMAN'S MISSION. " Not for this Taint I, nor mourn, nor murmur — other gifts Have followed,...such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense." WORDSWORTH. " THERE is a property of good in all things evil," said Miss Hastings to her sister-in-law... | |
 | Manchester district Sunday school assoc - 1854 - 270 pages
...says, — " I have learned To look OD nature, not as in the hoar Of thoughtless youth ; but bearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh, nor grating, though of ample power, To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English essays - 1854 - 350 pages
...from the eye. That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn, nor murmur ; other gifts Have follow'd, for such loss I would believe Abundant recompense. For I have learn'd To look on nature,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1855 - 704 pages
...eye. — That time is past, . And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur ; other...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanitj', Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.... | |
 | B. J. Wallace, Albert Barnes - Presbyterian Church - 1855 - 722 pages
...process of imaginative development, to intimate, mysterious communion with the inward spirit of nature : For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts... | |
 | Stuart Briscoe - Religion - 2010 - 773 pages
...looking and learning. In his mature years he wrote, For / have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes...of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.14 Wordsworth, the poet, had learned to look and learn far differently... | |
 | Adriana Craciun, Kari Lokke, Kari E. Lokke - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 414 pages
...talk himself out of his despair in "Tintern Abbey" by having learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes...of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. (lines 88-93) Opie's speaker, by contrast, draws attention to her doubt.... | |
 | Gordon Mursell - Religion - 2001 - 604 pages
...reflections: For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but in hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts;... | |
 | Jerome McGann - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 332 pages
...oscura brought, his poetry argued, an "abundant recompense" for psychic wounding and suffered loss. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. ("Tintcrn Abbey" [1798]) That lesson would guide and trouble a great deal... | |
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For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. 
