 If thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger ! henceforth be warned; and know, that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness; that he, who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties...  The Etonian - Pagina 292geredigeerd door - 1824Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1907 - 336 pagina’s
...deep "vale" " He died, this seat his only monument, c If thou be one whose heart the holy forms 45 Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger ! henceforth...that he, who feels contempt For any living thing, TialH tacultie'sT/ivAC 5° Which he has never used ; that thought with Trim Is in its infancy. The... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1907 - 338 pagina’s
...seeking for know- Reverence in ITT n ^1 • i ^ i. , for the Past ledge. Wordsworth is right when he says that he who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties which he hath never used, and thought within him is in its infancy. It is the same with that type of citizen... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - 1908 - 250 pagina’s
...of all his early qualities. Wordsworth gave away the secret. He is a boy who keeps on growing. He is One whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure. Where others see a finished world, he sees all things as manifestations of a free power. Even in their... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 588 pagina’s
...Essay on Poetry which follows were written in 1825 or the end of 1826. i8*8] SELECTIONS 431 " Know — that he who feels contempt For any living thing hath faculties Which he hath never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy." Lines left upon a Seat in a Tew Tree. "... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1911 - 296 pagina’s
...fancy feed, Till his eye streamed with tears. In this deep vale He died, this seat his only monument. If thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young...majesty, Is littleness ; that he, who feels contempt 61 For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him 50 Is in its... | |
 | Clara Bancroft Beatley - 1911 - 224 pagina’s
...wisely put ; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut. " RALPH WALDO EMERSON. Stranger ! Henceforth be warned, and know that pride,...thing hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thonght with him Is in its infancy. The man whose eye Is ever on himself doth look on one, The least... | |
 | 1903 - 1038 pagina’s
...interpreter, for none had listened with an ear so patient as for his mastery of her language. His announcement that He who feels contempt For any living thing hath faculties Which he has never used was like a revelation." This revelation was made by one whose sensibility was not only exquisitely... | |
 | 1899 - 1036 pagina’s
...only place fit to live in out of America. " Wordsworth's wise saying is on an early page : " He that feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties which he has never used." Mr. Hosmer glorifies John Adams, and says that "at eighty-three (when he sat near him every Sunday... | |
 | Charles Maurice Stebbins - 1913 - 488 pagina’s
...found him there Kneeling upon the floor, absorbed in silent prayer. — HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. He who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used; and thought with him Is in its infancy. The man whose eye Is ever on himself doth look on one, The... | |
 | 1914 - 540 pagina’s
...diction, and Crabbe'sî Take now this passage in the " Lines Left on a Seat in a Yew-tree " : " Know that ... he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he hath never used : that thought with him Is in its infancy." Rousseau had already said (in " Emile"),... | |
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