 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 358 ページ
...was put To inquisition, long and profitless ! By pain of heart— now checked— and now impelled — The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way ! These " toils abstruse " in his case availed not the Solitary of the Hills. Else, the poet himself... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 ページ
...Wordsworth as with his Solitary in the Excursion. Men had been questioning the outer and the inner life, " The intellectual power through words and things Went sounding on. a dim and perilous way," and men were roused from that abstraction ; •• For lo ' the dread Bastfle, With all the chambers in... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 ページ
...life was put To inquisition, long and profitless. By pain of heart, — now cheeked, and now impelled, The Intellectual Power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way ! WORDSWORTH. DESTINY. T1TE Destiny, Minister General, That executeth in the world o'er all The purveiance... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 ページ
...iii. Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged. Ibid. Monastic brotherhood, upon rock Aerial. ibid. The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way ! 1 Ibid. Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children. ibid. There is a luxury in... | |
 | Charles Isidore Hemans - 1874 - 842 ページ
...unnatural temper of mind in the revolt against superstition, during which, painfully and feebly — The intellectual power through words and things Went sounding on, a dim and perilous war !* The Mithraic religion had its spiritual and noble as well as its darker aspect; also such analogies... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 ページ
...Solitary, and were suddenly roused from that long inquisition into the framework of society in which When he 1 ..... For lo ! the dread Bastile, With all the chambers in its horrid towers, Fell to the ground :... | |
 | 1877 - 938 ページ
...Columbus alone in the world's history shows a rival type of sustained, deliberate, solitary courage. " Tho intellectual power, through words and things Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way !" The problem which Des Cartes set before him was to explain the evolution of the universe by assuming... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1879 - 706 ページ
...as with his Solitary in " The Excursion." Men had been questioning the outer and the inner life: " The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way," and men were roused from that abstraction : " For lo! the dread Bastile, With all the chambers in its horrid... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1880 - 434 ページ
...crumbling ruins of fallen pride ; " or taught us how, " By pain of heart, now checked, and now impelled, The intellectual power through words and things Went sounding on a dim and perilous way." He has himself described this self-determination of his genius to " preserve and enlarge the freedom... | |
 | John McGovern - 1880 - 762 ページ
...was put To inquisition long and profitless! Bv pain of heart — now checked, and now impelled — The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way. The tocsin of 1792 is -sounded, the Faubourg St. Antoine belches forth, the Bastille falls, and the... | |
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Turned inward, — to examine of what stuff Time's fetters are composed; and life was put To inquisition, long and profitless ! By pain of heart — now checked — and now impelled The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a... 
