 | Thomas Clarkson - 1876 - 152 σελίδες
...*See Lyrical Ballads, vol. i: p. I. j " Nor less I deem that there are Powers, Which of themselves our minds impress, That we can feed this 'mind of ours,...here alone, Conversing as I may, I sit upon this old gray stone, And dream my time away ? " CHAPTER Y. This Spirit was not only given to man as a teacher,... | |
 | Cecil Maxwell - 1876 - 316 σελίδες
...were of small consequence. They rolled off Emilia's mind like rain off a cabbage leaf. CHAPTER IV. "Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum Of things for...of itself will come, But we must still be seeking? " IN many things Pamela and her father were much alike, but there was also a great gap between their... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1877 - 364 σελίδες
...by degrees, instead of fancying we can find it all out by effort. Do you remember Wordsworth's — Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum Of things for...of itself will come, But we must still be seeking ? We do not trust God ; we trust ourselves. We do not believe that He seeks us ; we fancy we have to... | |
 | Desiderius Erasmus - 1878 - 486 σελίδες
...157 " Sir, let us walk down Fleet Street."—Dr. Johnson. Nature talkative enough 158 " Think you of all this mighty sum Of things for ever speaking, That...of itself will come, But we must still be seeking?" Wordsworth. Fortunate Islands ... ... ... ... ... 158 See Lucian : " Veracious History," xxvi. The... | |
 | Desiderius Erasmus - 1878 - 506 σελίδες
...down Fleet Street."— Dr. Johnson. Nature talkative enough ... ... ... ... ... 158 " Think you of all this mighty sum Of things for ever speaking, That...of itself will come, But we must still be seeking ? " Wordsworth. Fortunate Islands 158 See Lucian : " Veracious History," xxvi. The best of Company... | |
 | William Parsons Atkinson - 1878 - 78 σελίδες
...wise passiveness," * yet that wise * " Nor less I deem that there are powers Which of themselves our minds impress: That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness." WORDSWORTH. passiveness is never earned save by much and wise activity. But I say the mind must have... | |
 | William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt - 1878 - 512 σελίδες
...poet, who is an example of his own doctrine— " That there are powers Which of themselves our minda impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness." Or I have sometimes thought that the dalliance of the mind with Fancy or with Truth might be described... | |
 | John Dempster Bell - 1878 - 480 σελίδες
...and dreaming, " for the length of half a day," on an old gray stone by Esthwaite Lake, he avers — " That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness." And adds the words : " Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum Of things forever speaking, That nothing... | |
 | Marshall Brown - 1991 - 516 σελίδες
...view that are inaccessible to the restless consciousness for which being is always doing and acting: Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum Of things for...of itself will come, But we must still be seeking? ("Expostulation and Reply") In time of war, of course, the meditative stance that is willing to let... | |
 | Daniel A. Dombrowski - 1992 - 236 σελίδες
...Leibniz, influenced Whitehead) noticed: "... I deem that there are Powers/ Which of themselves our minds impress;/ That we can feed this mind of ours/ In a wise passiveness." We fail to feed our minds this wise passiveness largely because "The world is too much with us; late... | |
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Nor less I deem that there are powers Which of themselves our minds impress ; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. 
