 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1873 - 840 pages
...And mountains ; and of all that we behold From this green earth ; of all the mighty world -Of eye, and ear, — both what they half create, And what...guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being." One more passage I give you from one of his less-known, though, I think, one of his greatest poems,... | |
 | American literature - 1873 - 808 pages
...woods. And mountains ; and of all that we behold From this green earth ; of all the mighty world Of eye, and ear, — both what they half create. And what...guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being." One more passage I give you from one of his less-known, though, I think, one of his greatest poems,... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1873 - 628 pages
...woods, And mountains ; and of all that we behold From this green earth ; of all the mighty world Of eye, and ear, — both what they half create, And what...guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being." One more passage I give you from one of his less-known, though, I think, one of his greatest poems,... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1873 - 334 pages
...mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth ; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear—both what they half create, And what perceive ; well pleased...guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being.' II. CHALK-STREAM STUDIES. IT. CHALK-STREAM STUDIES. 1 PISHING is generally associated in men's minds... | |
 | Burton F. Porter - Philosophy - 2001 - 336 pages
...prodigal must return to the mothering arms of nature which is, as Wordsworth declared in "Tintern Abbey": The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, The guide,...guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being. Or as he wrote elsewhere in the same poem, in extolling his boyhood emotions, . . . For nature then... | |
 | John Burroughs - 2000 - 348 pages
...half create, And what perceive; well pleased to recognize In nature and the language of the sense, 245 The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, The guide,...guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being." That creative eye and ear in the presence of Nature is what mainly distinguishes the modern attitude... | |
 | Gordon Mursell - Religion - 2001 - 604 pages
...mighty world Of eye, and ear, - both what they half create, And what perceive; well pleased to recognise In nature and the language of the sense The anchor...the guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being.51 It is vital to note the connections here between beauty and morality, between feelings and... | |
 | Emma Driver - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 150 pages
...youth. The real meaning in nature is now fully revealed and we find out what the speaker sees in God: The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, The guide,...guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being. (109-11) Lines 111-59 The final section is addressed to a specific person — the speaker's sister.... | |
 | Kenneth R. Johnston - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 740 pages
...the calm That Nature breathes among her woodland haunts . . ,29 Their conclusions are also similar: 'Nor perchance, / If I were not thus taught, should...more / Suffer my genial spirits to decay: / For thou * 'Was it for this that I had broken through so many locks, and bolts, and the adamantine walls of... | |
 | Kristine S. Santilli - Gesture in literature - 2002 - 182 pages
...if they were the gestures of his own body. Wordsworth refers to this source of his personal being as "the anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, / The...guardian of my heart, and soul / Of all my moral being" t100-01). But when he sees "into the life of things" during his epiphanic return after five long years,... | |
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Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear,— both what they half create, And what perceive; well pleased to recognize In nature and... 
