| Irving Babbitt - 1919 - 458 halaman
...would fain strike root into the earth with the plant. Animals l and plants are not engaged in any 1 With nature never do they wage A foolish strife; they...happy youth and their old age Is beautiful and free. Wordsworth: The Fountain. moral struggle, they are not inwardly divided against themselves. Here is... | |
| Basil Anderton - 1922 - 208 halaman
...on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows. . . . The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please,...happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free. In winning his relief he looks, it is true, only on one aspect of nature, and he either does not see,... | |
| william worsworth - 1923 - 498 halaman
...for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. "The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please,...strife; they see A happy youth, and their old age "But we are pressed by heavy laws; And often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy, because We have... | |
| Hugh I'Anson Fausset - 1923 - 306 halaman
...egotism to deny nature instead of transcending her. Even the birds could teach these latter a better way: With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife; they...happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free. Yet Wordsworth never encouraged, as so many disciples of Rousseau, a weak surrender of human will to... | |
| Curtis Hidden Page - 1910 - 966 halaman
...for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. " The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above dutJiey wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free : '•... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1924 - 774 halaman
...what age takes away, 35 Than what it leaves behind. ' The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they wil1. 40 ' With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old... | |
| Annie Edwards Powell Dodds - 1926 - 284 halaman
...the beauty of a rich full life of body and spirit. Their songs are not like those of the birds who let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. Art and knowledge have entered into their singing, so that it is able to express their complex life,... | |
| Arthur Beatty - 1928 - 582 halaman
...for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. "The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please,...quiet when they will. "With Nature never do they wage L / A foolish strife; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free: "But we are... | |
| 1910 - 240 halaman
...so familiar that it has been used to point to a wellknown contrast : — " The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark upon the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. -j With Nature never do they wage A. foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is... | |
| Meyer Howard Abrams - 1973 - 564 halaman
...act by instinct, and without memory or anticipation: The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please,...happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free. Like Schiller and Coleridge, Wordsworth here expresses, through the medium of an invented character,... | |
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