...controvert. The logic is so exact, the emotion so restrained! The frame of mind in which Wordsworth wrote ' and you must love him ere to you he will seem worthy of your love ' seems alien to this just and kindly judge. He would say that it would be foolish to bestow your love,...

...author. For what Wordsworth says of the poet applies with at least equal force to the philosopher: 'You must love him, ere to you he will seem worthy of your love.' And Dr. Whewell is not in the fullest sense a lover of Plato. Either his mind has not been cast in...

...considerations in the coarse of the argument!' 164 165 plies with at least equal force to the philosopher: ' You must love him, ere to you he will seem worthy of your love.' And Dr. Whe\vell is not in the fullest sense a lover of Plato. Either his mind has not been cast in...

...surfaces, how great is that darkness ! The saying of Wordsworth concerning the Poet, that Yon most love him ere to you He will seem worthy of your love, which at first reading sounds very much like nonsense, is absolutely true He must have won your credit...

...Wordsworth which define the first characteristic of the personal historian, who is also the interpreter: And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love. One is a little overpowered by the sense of continual cleverness, of all-round literary efficiency,...

...And clad in homely russet brown ? He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own. He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noonday...outward shows of sky and earth, Of hill and valley, he had viewed ; And impulses of deeper birth Bad come to him in solitude. In common things that round...

...other ; and he xliv was well described, twenty years before bis birth, by the English poet he admired : He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noonday...love him ere to you He will seem worthy of your love. In common things that round us lie Some random truths he can impart — The harvest of a quiet eye,...

...? All who care can judge for themselves. No arguing will make a man or a generation like a poet. ' You must love him ere to you he will seem worthy of 1923 519 your love.' Nor, perhaps, does it so greatly matter what the poet himself was like. We know...

...descriptions. We do not read his poetry to find what are called " finished landscapes." True,— " The outward shows of sky and earth, Of hill and valley, he has viewed ; " — but " Impulses of deeper birth Have come to him in solitude ; " and it is these impulses of...

...river. A river is the coyest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it. "And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love." [Wordsworth, "A Poet's Epitaph" (1799)] The Rhine, after all, is the theme and mistress of romance...