 | James Handasyd Perkins - 1851
...longings for purity and peace. Well might he have echoed Wordsworth's sublime strain of gratitude : — " Wisdom and Spirit of the universe ! Thou soul that art the eternity of thought, That gavest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from... | |
 | 1851
...INFLUENCE OF NATURAL OBJECTS IN CAXLING FORTH AND STRENGTHENING THE IMAGFNATION IN BOYHOOD AND EARLY YOUTH. WISDOM and Spirit of the universe ! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought ! And givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion ! not in vain, By day or star-light,... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - 1851 - 406 sivua
...full of blessings. NATURE'S DISCIPLINE FOR THE SOUL. 205 And again, in the Poem of The Excursion : Wisdom and spirit of the universe ! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought! And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion ! not in vain, By day or star-light,... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851
...early youth. " Wisdom and spirit of the universe,6 Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought ! And givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain ' Vol. vp 124. 2 Vol. iv. p. 195. a Vol. iv. p. 197. 4 Vol. iv. p. 193. See above, p. 37, 38. 5 Vol.... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851
...early youth. " Wisdom and spirit of the universe, 6 Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought! And givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain 1 Vol. vp 124. » Vol. iv. p. 195. s Vol. iv. p. 197. 4 Vol. iv. p. 193. See above, p. 37, 38. By day... | |
 | 1851
...following passage : — " Wisdom and Spirit of the universe P Thou foul that nrt the eternity of though^ That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vaiu By day or star-light thus from my fin>t dawn Of ehililhood didst them intertwine for me The passions... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1852
...Wordsworth. -- Wisdom and Spirit of the Universe ! Thou will that art the eternity of thought And giv'&t to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion ! Not in vain, By day or starlight, thui from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1852
...result is in many instances arrived at, so happily described in the following lines of Wordsworth : " Wisdom and Spirit of the Universe ! Thou soul that art the eternity of thought And giv'et to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion ! Not in vain, By day or starlight,... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1853 - 632 sivua
...-gone ages float up to me, and assuage the austere pleasure of contemplation (: earnest thought :). Wisdom and Spirit of the Universe ! Thou soul that art the Eternity of Thought, And givest to forms and images a breath, And everlasting motion! Not in vain, By day or star-light,... | |
 | PROFESSOR SHEDD - 1853
...GROWTH OF GENIUS PROM THE INFLUENCES OF NATURAL OBJECTS ON THE IMAGINATION IN BOYHOOD AND EARLY YOUTH. Wisdom and spirit of the universe ! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought ! And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion ! not in vain, By day or star-light,... | |
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Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul ; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things— With... 
