| John Brown - 1862 - 360 páginas
...delirium set in strong, without pause. Her brain gave way, and then came that terrible spectacle, " The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way;" she sang bits of old songs and Psalms, stopping suddenly, mingling the Psalms of David, and the diviner... | |
| John Brown - 1862 - 506 páginas
...delirium set in strong, without pause. Her brain gave way, and then came that terrible spectacle, ' The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way ;' she sang bits of old songs and Psalms, stopping suddenly, mingling the Psalms of David, and the... | |
| John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 páginas
...Ibid. Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged. Book iii Monastic brotherhood, upon rock aerial. Ibid. The intellectual power through words and things Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way ! * Ibid Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children. Ibid There is a luxury in... | |
| Henry Washington Hilliard - 1865 - 556 páginas
...you, with all your rich endowment of mind, in the, language of my namesake, William Wordsworth : ' The intellectual power through words and things Went sounding on a dim and perilous way." upon a sea of doubt, and if I would borrow wings to bear me across it, I fear that, like those of Icarus,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1866 - 508 páginas
...put To inquisition, long and profitless ! By pam of heart — now checked — and now impelled — The intellectual power, through words and things,...and perilous way ! And from those transports, and those toils abstruse, Some trace am I enabled to retain Of time, else lost;— existing unto me Only... | |
| Henry Morley - 1867 - 456 páginas
...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 dim and perilous way ! From that abstraction I was roused, — and how ?" By the fall of the Bastile, when — " From the... | |
| Treasury - 1869 - 474 páginas
...Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged. Booh iu. Monastic brotherhood, upon rock aerial. //,/,/. The intellectual power through words and things Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way !* n,iii. Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children. //,;y. There is a luxury... | |
| James Kent Stone - 1870 - 362 páginas
...tastes or antecedent notions of spiritual things; he would have listened and believed. Whereas, before, "The intellectual power through words and things 'Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way," now it would make haste to bow in glad submission to the utterances of a divine and therefore infallible... | |
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 páginas
...put To inquisition, long and profitless ! By pain of heart — now checked — and now im. _pelled— The intellectual power, through words and things,...perilous way ! And from those transports, and these toils ahstruse, Some trace am I enahled to retain Of time, else lost; — existing unto me Only hy records... | |
| David Thomas - 1871 - 784 páginas
...suffered to commit such enormous crimes ? With questions like these, many have vexed themselves. " The intellectual power, through words and things, went sounding on a dim and perilous way." n. THOSE WHO WALK E* SLIPPERY PLACES ARE IN DANGER OF TAILS. Says the Psalmist, v. 2, " My feet had... | |
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