 | Peter L. Rudnytsky - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 360 pages
...turns to apostrophize the small child in some quite extraordinary lines: Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy Soul's immensity; Thou best Philosopher,...heritage, thou Eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read's! the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind, — Mighty Prophet! Seer blest! On... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...As if his whole vocation Were endless imitation. VIII Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie 1 10 Thy Soul's immensity; Thou best Philosopher, who yet...Prophet! Seer blest! On whom those truths do rest, Which we are toiling all our lives to find, In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave; Thou, over... | |
 | Mark Edmundson - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 260 pages
...object of his broodings throughout the poem, the "best Philosopher": Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy Soul's immensity; Thou best Philosopher,...eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind, - (109-14)' Wordsworth's friend, collaborator, and sometimes competitor, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, disliked... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...vocation Were endless imitation. Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy Soul's immensity; 110 Thou best Philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage,...among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the etemal deep, Haunted for ever by the etemal mind, — Mighh Prophet! Seer blest! On whom those truths... | |
 | Peter Hughes, Robert Rehder - Authors and printing - 1996 - 258 pages
...Thou whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy soul's immensity, Thou best philosopher, who yet doth keep Thy heritage - thou eye among the blind That,...prophet, seer blest, On whom those truths do rest Which we are toiling all our years to find! (11. 108-18) No wonder that Francis Jeffrey regarded the... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - English language - 1997 - 613 pages
...Intimations of Immortality the child, as a symbol of all that is holy and good, is directly addressed: Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage,...deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted forever by the eternal mind. do not strictly adhere to Wordsworth's poetic principles of simple and... | |
 | A.S. Byatt - Fiction - 1996 - 406 pages
...life of the soul in terms of depth and confinement. The child is, to Coleridge's exact distaste, an "Eye among the blind / That deaf and silent read'st the eternal deep." Stephanie saw suddenly that the reiterated, varied "deeps" of this stanza were part of a Wordsworthian... | |
 | Jerome Christensen - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 262 pages
...Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy Soul's immensity; Thou best Philosopher, who yet doest keep Thy heritage, thou Eye among the blind, That,...Prophet! Seer blest! On whom those truths do rest, Which we are toiling all our lives to find, In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave. . . . In "what... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Poetry - 2000 - 788 pages
...her in her Equipage; As if his whole vocation Were endless imitation. Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy Soul's immensity; Thou best Philosopher, who yet dost keep no Thy heritage, thou Eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted... | |
 | Frank Mehring - Nature in literature - 2001 - 194 pages
...charakterisiert es der Dichter der Ode als mächtigen Propheten. 241 Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy Soul's immensity; Thou best Philosopher,...the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind,Mighty Prophet! Seer blest! 242 239 Wordsworth, „Intimations of Immortality". Works. Vol. 4.... | |
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Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy soul's immensity; Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal Mind, — • Mighty Prophet!... 
