| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 588 pages
...arouse the sensual from their sleep Of Death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual...fitted : — and how exquisitely, too — (Theme this hut little heard of among men — ) The external World is fitted to the Mind ; And the creation (by... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 pages
...Paradise Lost, vll. 31 : " Still govern thou my song, Urania, and fit audience li ml, though few." (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species) to th' external World Is fitted; — and how exquisitely, too, — Theme this but little heard of among... | |
| William Wordsworth - English literature - 1876 - 366 pages
...the sensual from their sleep )f Death, and win the vacant and the vain I To noble raptures ; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual...fitted to the Mind ; And the creation (by no lower name Can it be called) which they with blended might Accomplish : — this is our high argument. — Such... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...arouse the sensual from their sleep Of death, and win the vacant and the rain To noble raptures ; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual...fitted to the Mind ; And the creation (by no lower name Can it be culled) which they with blended might Accomplish :— this is our high argument. The published... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1876 - 574 pages
...external world Is fitted : — and how exquisitely, too, Sierne this but little heard of among men), e external world is fitted to the mind ; And the creation (by no lower name Can It be called) which they with blended migh Accomplish : — this is our high argument, Such grateful... | |
| David Jayne Hill - English language - 1877 - 328 pages
...The following lines from Word . worth illustrate the damaging effects of parenthesr upon poetry : " My voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual...among men) The external world is fitted to the mind." The truth is, since thought admits of suspension without irreparable damage, while feeling is absolutely... | |
| Nineteenth century - 1889 - 1088 pages
...discordant passions of humanity, but striving to ' win the vacant and the vain to noble raptures,' while he proclaims — How exquisitely the individual Mind...men — The external World is fitted to the Mind. I cannot agree with the opinion that this canto of the Eecluse's Home and his aspirations, is inferior... | |
| Henry Trigg - Education - 1877 - 168 pages
...laws, and the principles of the mind and the outward world. Thus sings one of our " English bards," * "My voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual...external world Is fitted, and how exquisitely too — * Wordsworth. Theme this but little heard of among men — The external world is fitted to the... | |
| Joseph Gostwick - English language - 1878 - 522 pages
...curves or brackets is not good. The following long parenthesis is remarkably objectionable : — ' JVIy voice proclaims, How exquisitely the individual mind...the whole species) to the external world Is fitted." WOBDSWORTH. 21. But a rather long parenthesis may be allowed in a humorous style of writing, as in... | |
| Joseph Gostwick - English language - 1878 - 528 pages
...parenthesis is remarkably objectionable : — ' My voice proclaims, How exquisitely the individual mi ml. (And the progressive powers, perhaps, no less Of the whole species) to the external world Is fitted.' WORDSWORTH. 21. Bnt a rather long parenthesis may be allowed in a humorous style of writing, as in... | |
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