 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1814 - 476 pages
...dwindles, and decays ; And countless generations of Mankind Depart; and leave no vestige where they trod. We live by admiration, hope, and love ; And even as...well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend. But what is error ? — " Answer he who can !" The Sceptic somewhat haughtily exclaimed, " Love, Hope,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 456 pages
...dwindles, and decays ; And countless generations of Mankind Depart ; and leave no vestige where they trod. We live by admiration, hope, and love ; And even as...well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend. But what is error ?" — " Answer he who can !" The Sceptic somewhat haughtily exclaimed, " Love, Hope,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1836 - 398 pages
...dwindles, and decays ; And countless generations of mankind Depart ; and leave no vestige where they trod. We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love ; And, even...well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend. But what is error ? " — " Answer he who can ! " The Sceptic somewhat haughtily exclaimed : " Love,... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - American essays - 1836 - 676 pages
...its highest welfare. " Man liveth not by bread alone," any more as a nation than as an individual. We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love, And even as these are well and worthily Axed, In dignity of being we ascend. WORDSWORTH. National well-being consists in the development... | |
 | sir John William Kaye - 1837 - 922 pages
...and admiration are stronger principles than envy. "We live by admiration, hope, and love, And e'en as these are well and wisely fixed. In dignity of being we ascend ; " • and I did not think so meanly of my fellow-creatures, as to believe, that by the encouragement... | |
 | 1839 - 790 pages
...contemn, to sympathize with than to shun our fellows. We live by admiration, hope and lore, And e'en as these are well and wisely fixed In dignity of being we ascend. We need not say that these lines are Wordsworth's, nor point out the severity with which they may be... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1841 - 400 pages
...dwindles, and decays ; And countless generations of mankind Depart ; and leave no vestige where they trod. We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love ; And, even...well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend. But what is error ? " — " Answer he who can ! " The Sceptic somewhat haughtily exclaimed : " Love,... | |
 | Theology - 1844 - 460 pages
...Now as the intellect is fed with truth, so the heart is fed with love and the kindred sentiments. " We live by admiration, hope, and love, And even as...and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend." But even where they are less "wisely fixed " — that is, where they arc associated with many and gross... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1844 - 452 pages
...Now as the intellect is fed with truth, so the heart is fed with love and the kindred sentiments. " We live by admiration, hope, and love, And even as...and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend." But even where they are less "wisely fixed" —that is, where they are associated with many and gross... | |
 | 1844 - 292 pages
...without which, it may possess merits, but cannot be true to itself. Wordsworth says, finely and truly : " We live by admiration, hope, and love ; And even as these are well ov wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend." It is because these high faculties are suffered to... | |
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We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love ; And, even as these are well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend. 
