 | Luke Howard - 1836 - 408 Seiten
...seems, better than his prose, the possibility of our being tanght much while we sit and do nothing. " Nor less I deem that there are powers Which of themselves...impress ; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.'"The thing here described is certainly true : on the other hand, it is said, " The devil... | |
 | 1836 - 346 Seiten
...by quoting the lines : — " The eye — it cannot choose but see, \Ve cannot bid the ear be still ; Our bodies feel where'er they be, Against or with our will. *' Nor less I dream that there are power*, Which of themselves our minds impns.. : That we can feed this miud of... | |
 | Horace Binney Wallace - 1838 - 274 Seiten
...growth was my spirit matured, and The eye can never choose but see ; We cannot bid the ear be still ; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against or with...can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. " There is no form or phase of moral being in -which there is not enwrapped a seed of wisdom. Suffering... | |
 | 1838 - 540 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1840 - 430 Seiten
...answer you from Wordsworth : " The eye, it cannot choose to see ; " We cannot bid the ear be still ; " Our bodies feel, where'er they be, " Against or with...themselves our minds impress ; " That we can feed that mind of oars " In a wise passiveness." LETTER X. Lnih Inn, 18"» July. TOIL must follow rest.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 612 Seiten
...spake, And thus 1 made reply : ' The eye — it cannot choose but see; We cannot bid the ear be still ; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against, or with...• 'Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum Of things forever speaking, That nothing q/ itself viM come, But we must still be seeking 1 1 Then ask not wherefore,... | |
 | 1843 - 602 Seiten
...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...ours In a wise passiveness. •Think you, 'mid all ihis mighty sum Of things for ever speaking, That nothing of itself will come, But we must still be... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 612 Seiten
...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 feed this mind of oars In a wise passiveness. 'Think yon, 'mid all this mighty sum Of ihings for ever speaking, That... | |
 | Henry Clapp - 1846 - 238 Seiten
...thus I made reply : — " The eye, — it cannot choose but see ; We cannot bid the ear be still ; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against, or with...passiveness. Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum Of thought forever speaking, That nothing of itself will come, But we must still be seeking ? —Then... | |
 | 1846 - 436 Seiten
...thus I made reply : — " The eye, — it cannot choose but see ; We cannot bid the ear be still ; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against or with...Which of themselves our minds impress ; That we can feel this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. " Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum Of things for ever... | |
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The eye — it cannot choose but see ; We cannot bid the ear be still; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against or with our will. 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... 
