 All accidents, and to the very road Which they have fashioned would confine us down, Like engines ; when will their presumption learn, That in the unreasoning progress of the world A wiser spirit is at work for us, A better eye than theirs, most prodigal...  English in Schools: A Series of Essays - Page xiiby Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 79 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - Leather bindings (Bookbinding) - 1835 - 420 pages
...a standing restraint upon such presumptuousness of judgment by impressing the truth that — In the unreasoning progress of the world A wiser spirit is at work for us, A better eye than ours. MS. Revelation points to the purity and peace of a future world ; but our sphere of duty is upon... | |
 | Horace Binney Wallace - England - 1838 - 274 pages
...of Almighty wisdom. When He chooses, his is the hand and his alone that can erect mortality. In the unreasoning progress of the world A wiser spirit is at work for us, A better eye than ours. Labour is not always blessed, nor is idleness always unprofitable. God doth not need Either man's... | |
 | American periodicals - 1842 - 546 pages
...sluggishness — mental passiveness. Happy, indeed, is it to seek repose often in the assurance that, " In the unreasoning progress of the world, A wiser spirit is at work for us, A better eye than ours." Whenever any peculiar state of feeling is engendered reciprocally in the hearts of the people... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...standing restraint upon such presumptuousness of judgment, by impressing the truth that — In the unreasoning progress of the world A wiser spirit is at work for us, A better eye thaa ours. MS. Revelation points to the purity and peace of a future world ; but our sphere of duty... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1850 - 412 pages
...have fashioned would confine us down, Like engines ; when will their presumption learn. That in the unreasoning progress of the world A wiser spirit is...good, Even in what seem our most unfruitful hours \ ( 5 ) There was a Boy : ye knew him well, ye cliffs And islands of Winander !—many a time At evening,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1850 - 396 pages
...have fashioned would confine us down, Like engines ; when will their presumption learn, That in the unreasoning progress of the world A wiser spirit is...good, Even in what seem our most unfruitful hours ? (5) There was a Boy : ye knew him well, ye cliffs And islands of Winander ! — many a time At evening,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1850 - 388 pages
...have fashioned would confine us down, Like engines ; when will their presumption learn, That in the unreasoning progress of the world A wiser spirit is at work for us, 6 A better eye than theirs, most prodigal Of blessings, and most studious of our good, Even in what... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...have fashioned would confine us down, Like engines; when will their presumption learn, That in the ings; And tier's J * There was a Boy: ye knew him well, ye cliffs And islands of Winander ! — many a time At evening,... | |
 | Periodicals - 1851 - 724 pages
...Like engines; when will their presumption learn, That in the unreasoning progress of the world A viser Spirit is at work for us, A better eye than theirs,...good. Even in what seem our most unfruitful hours." Most happy was Wordsworth that he had a mother who did not mistrust our nature, bat "had virtual faith... | |
 | 1851 - 1220 pages
...have fashioned would confine us down, Like engines ; when will their presumption learn, That in the unreasoning progress of the world A. wiser Spirit is at work for tw, A better eye than their*, moat prodigal Of blessings, and moat studious of our good, Eiien in wliat... | |
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