| 1836 - 422 páginas
...idleness — there is little fear of that — " The ear it cannot choose but hear, We cannot bid the eye be still, Our bodies feel where'er they be, Against, or with our will.'' And it is a mean and poor policy to mete out every minute, and begrudge every fragment of existence... | |
| Horace Binney Wallace - 1838 - 274 páginas
...surrounded the view, and thus by unconscious growth was my spirit matured, and The eye can never choose but see ; We cannot bid the ear be still ; Our bodies...of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. " There is no form or phase of moral being in -which there... | |
| 1838 - 540 páginas
...look into the higher nature of original truth, by Intuition, — no unreal function of our nature : Nor less I deem that there are powers, Which, of themselves, our minds impress; That we can feed these minds of ours, In a wise passiveness. But if it is precisely because the most creative minds... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 612 páginas
...why, To me my good friend Matthew spake, And thus 1 made reply : ' The eye — it cannot choose but see; We cannot bid the ear be still ; Our bodies feel,...of themselves our minds impress ; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. • 'Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum Of things forever... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1843 - 470 páginas
...wisdom that we may become receptive of a higher wisdom,) can it be said of the teachings of religion ; "Nor less I deem, that there are powers, " Which of themselves our minds impress; "That we can feed this mind of ours "In a wise passiveness. "Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum "Of things for ever... | |
| 1843 - 602 páginas
...good friend Matthew spake, And thus I made reply : 1 The eye — it cannot choose but see; We canuot bid the ear be still; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against, or with our will. 1 Nor less I deem that there are powers Which of themselves our minds impress] That we can feed this... | |
| John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 612 páginas
...good friend Matthew spake, And thus I made reply : ' The eye — it cannot choose but see; We canLot bid the ear be still ; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against, or with onr will. ' Nor less F deem that there are powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 páginas
...not why, To me my good friend Matthew spake, And thus I made reply " The eye — it cannot choose but see ; We cannot bid the ear be still ; Our bodies...of themselves our minds impress ; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum Of things for ever speaking,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 páginas
...Matthew spake, And thus I made reply " The eye — it cannot choose but see ; We cannot bid the car be still ; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against...of themselves our minds impress ; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum Of things for ever speaking,... | |
| Henry Clapp - 1846 - 228 páginas
...To me my good friend Matthew spake, And thus I made reply t — " The eye, — it cannot choose but see ; We cannot bid the ear be still; Our bodies feel,...of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum Of thought forever speaking,... | |
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