 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 halaman
...me my good friend Matthew spake. And thus 1 made reply: M The eye — it cannot chuse but sec \\ • cannot bid the ear be still ; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against, or with our will. « Think you, mid all this mighty sum Of things for ever speaking, That nothing of itself will come,... | |
 | William Russell - 1828 - 910 halaman
...to be attended to, as an intimation of providence to relax. V^« would not be understood to deny ' That there are powers Which of themselves our minds impress ; That we may feed these minds of ours In a wise passiveness,' a doctrine which is full of comfort to the sick... | |
 | Luke Howard - 1836 - 408 halaman
...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 halaman
...dryness of this description 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... | |
 | 1836 - 422 halaman
...idleness — there is little fear of that — " The ear it cannot choose but hear, We cannot bid the eye be still, Our bodies feel where'er they be, Against, or with our will.'' And it is a mean and poor policy to mete out every minute, and begrudge every fragment of existence... | |
 | Horace Binney Wallace - 1838 - 274 halaman
...which surrounded the view, and thus by unconscious growth was my spirit matured, and The eye can never choose but see ; We cannot bid the ear be still ;...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 halaman
...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 halaman
...earth. Think you this time was lost? I will answer you from Wordsworth : " The eye, it cannot choose to see ; " We cannot bid the ear be still ; " Our bodies...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 halaman
...When life was sweet, I knew not why, To me my good friend Matthew spake, And thus 1 made reply : ' The eye — it cannot choose but see; We cannot bid...• '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 halaman
...good friend Matthew spake, And thus I made reply : 1 The eye — it cannot choose but 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 our minds impress] That we can feed this... | |
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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 passiveness. 
