 | Riccardo Dottori - Logic - 2003 - 452 pages
..."fugitive", but the "shadowy recollections" of those moments of truth in the past are, even for the adult, "yet the fountain light of all our day, / Are yet a master light of all our seeing" (IX, 149, 151-152), even in an ode devoted to a moment of dejection. For Wordsworth, those recollections... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 56 pages
...realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised: But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet a master-light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish,... | |
 | Kurt Fosso - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 316 pages
...cycle of life and death. The Ode therefore gives thanks, not for childhood's "[d]elight and liberty," But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and...our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing. .. . (139,144-155) The Introduction briefly considered these lines' allusion to Hamlet's opening scene... | |
 | Uttara Natarajan, Tom Paulin, Duncan Wu - Literary Collections - 2005 - 216 pages
...Wordsworth adapts Cowper, and anticipates Hazlitt, when he writes in the Immortality Ode (1802-4): those first affections, Those shadowy recollections,...our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing. The philosophical idealism, which both writers share, is given concrete, empirical embodiment — 'master-spring',... | |
 | Austin Phelps - Religion - 2005 - 142 pages
...moral existence what the optic nerve is to the eye. It is one of those "high instincts". "Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of...our day; Are yet a master light of all our seeing: Truths that wake To perish never, Which neither listlessness nor mad endeavor Can utterly abolish or... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - Literary Collections - 2005 - 575 pages
...philosophy itself. — RALPH WALDO EMERSON, in a letter to his brother Edward High instincts . . . ; Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day. . . . . . truths that wake, To perish never ---- —WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, Intimations Ode The passage... | |
 | William Dell - Health & Fitness - 2005 - 108 pages
...worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a Thing surprised: But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet a master-light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish,... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised: But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections,...our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour,... | |
 | Tom Walsh - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2007 - 200 pages
...realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised: But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections,...master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that... | |
 | Miguel de Unamuno - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 226 pages
...Unamuno places a mark resembling a right angle next to the lines, "Upon us, cherish, and have power to make / Our noisy years seem moments in the being / Of the eternal silence; truths that wake." 70. See ch. i, note 20, above. called dreams). The protagonist Segismundo's famous soliloquy at the... | |
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But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in... 
