Modern Philology, Volume 26University of Chicago Press, 1929 - Electronic journals Vols. 30-54 include 1932-1956 of "Victorian bibliography," prepared by a committee of the Victorian Literature Group of the Modern Language Association of America. |
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Page 203 - 0 Wordsworth! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live; Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth, A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the earth! And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and
Page 201 - better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear; A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light
Page 210 - Having to wield some of its elements when I was impelled to write this poem on the Immortality of the Soul, I took hold of the notion of pre-existence as having sufficient foundation in humanity for authorising me to make for my purpose the best use of it I could as a poet. Wordsworth
Page 178 - is far too shadowy a notion to be recommended to faith as more than an element in our instincts of immortality. But let us bear in mind that, though the idea is not advanced in Revelation, there is nothing to contradict it, and the fall of man presents an analogy in its favour.
Page 318 - Verses of the earl of Rochester extempore here is the health to our pleasant witty king whose word no man relies on who never said a foolish thing or ever did a wise one.
Page 182 - will Instruct them how the mind of man becomes A thousand times more beautiful than the earth On which he dwells, above this frame of things In beauty exalted, as it is itself Of quality and fabric more divine. 1
Page 203 - seemed mine. But now afflictions bow me down to earth: Nor care I, that they rob me of my mirth, But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination. It
Page 183 - fears .... Of tides obedient to external force, And currents self-determined, as might seem, Or by some inner Power; of moments awful, Now in thy inner life, and now abroad, When power streamed from thee, and thy soul received The light reflected, as light bestowed
Page 184 - Philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage, thou Eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted forever by the eternal mind.
Page 170 - I utterly recant the sentiment contained in the lines— "Of whose omniscient and all-spreading Love Aught to implore were impotence of mind," it being written in Scripture, "Ask and it shall be given you," and my human reason being moreover convinced of the propriety of offering petitions as well as thanksgivings to Deity.