...forms of nature. Rather, I believe, his feeling would be — silence is best. Has he not reminded us that ' There are powers Which of themselves our minds...we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness ' ? It was just because he could present to nature so broad and tranquil an expanse of receptive silence...

...beach and gaze away the day — impressed more strongly than ever with the sentiment of Wordsworth : " Nor less I deem that there are powers, Which of themselves our minds impress, That we can feel this mind of ours, In a wise pasaiveness. Think yon 'mid all the mighty stun, Of things forever...

...ploughshare, died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love. Poems composed in Summer oj 1833. xjcxvii. Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves...can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. Expostulation and Reply. 1 The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing Made of a quill from an Angel's...

...life was sweet, I knew not why, To me my good Friend Matthew spake, And tfius I made reply : — " " The eye, it cannot choose but see, We cannot bid the...feel, where'er they be, Against or with our will. *See Lyrical Ballads, vol. i: p. I. j " Nor less I deem that there are Powers, Which of themselves...

...thought. We turn to these things instinctively, at first, " 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." Man is not sufficient for himself intellectually, more than pc physically. He cannot rely wholly 0n...

...turn to these things instinctively, at first, " The eye, — it cannot choose hut see, "We cannot hid the ear be still ; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against or "with our will." Man is not sufficient for himself intellectually, more than physically. He cannot rely wholly on what...

...my good friend Mathew spake, And thus I made reply : — " ' 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 leu I deem that there are powers Which of themselves our mind* impress ; That we can feel this mind...

...most complex of all organisms, this pliability disappears. Each organ has its own peculiar function; " the eye it cannot choose but see, we cannot bid the ear be still." The optic nerve will only convey one class of sensations, and so with the uervo of hearing. Hence when...

...into a whole ; and though this is done partly in the poet's " wise passiveness," * yet that wise * " Nor less I deem that there are powers Which of themselves...can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness." WORDSWORTH. passiveness is never earned save by much and wise activity. But I say the mind must have...

...poet, who is an example of his own doctrine— " That there are powers Which of themselves our minda impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness." Or I have sometimes thought that the dalliance of the mind with Fancy or with Truth might be described...