| Henry Clapp - 1846 - 238 pages
...my good friend Matthew spake, And thus I made reply : — " The eye, — it cannot choose but see ; We cannot bid the ear be still ; Our bodies feel,...passiveness. Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum Of thought forever speaking, That nothing of itself will come, But we must still be seeking ? —Then... | |
| 1846 - 436 pages
...my good friend Matthew spake, And thus I made reply : — " The eye, — it cannot choose but see ; We cannot bid the ear be still ; Our bodies feel,...Which of themselves our minds impress ; That we can feel this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. " Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum Of things for ever... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1847 - 508 pages
...thought. We turn to these things instinctively, at first, " The eye, — it cannot choose but sec, We cannot bid the ear be still ; Our bodies feel where'er they be, Against or with our will." Man is not sufficient for himself intellectually, more than physically. He cannot rely wholly on what... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1847 - 494 pages
...of thought. We turn to these things instinctively, at first, " The eye,— it cannot chooie but see, We cannot bid the ear be still ; Our bodies feel where'er they be, Againit or wilh our will." Man is not sufficient for himself intellectually, more than physically.... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...why, To me my good friend Matthew spake, And thus I made reply : The eye, it cannot choose but see ; We cannot bid the ear be still ; Our bodies feel,...feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. Think yon, mid all this mighty sum Of things for ever speaking, That nothing of itself win come, But we must... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 pages
...To me my good friend Matthew spake, And thus I made 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 lese I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress ; That we can feed this mind... | |
| Henry Theodore Cheever - 1851 - 446 pages
...from a vernal wood may teach you more of man, Of human nature and of good, than all the sages can. Nor less I deem that there are powers Which of themselves our minds impress; And we can feed this mind of ours IN A WISE PASSITENESS. The valley itself, to one secluded in it,... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 396 pages
...forever speaking, That nothing of itself will come, But we must still be seeking ? " And again: — " Nor less I deem that there are powers Which of themselves our minds impress ; And we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness." These cases of infancy, reached at intervals... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 404 pages
...forever speaking, That nothing of itself will come, But we must still be seeking ? " And again : — " Nor less I deem that there are powers Which of themselves our minds impress ; And we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness." These cases of infancy, reached at intervals... | |
| Chambers's journal - 1854 - 416 pages
...things for ever speaking, That nothing of itself тП come, But we must still be seeking.' And again — Nor less I deem that there are powers Which of themselves our minds impress ; And we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. The wisdom of such passiveness can never... | |
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