 | Arlo Bates - Literature - 1897 - 280 pages
...poetry in any high sense to serve as an illustration : — I was a better judge of thoughts than words, Misled in estimating words, not only By common inexperience of youth, But by the trade of classic niceties, The dangerous craft of culling term and phrase From languages that want the living... | |
 | William Connor Sydney - England - 1898 - 526 pages
...quiet bowling-greens and calm quadrangles, who were still, like Wordsworth . in the preceding century, "Misled in estimating words, not only By common inexperience...living voice To carry meaning to the natural heart, To tell us what is passion, what is truth, What reason, what simplicity, what sense." It is an instructive... | |
 | William Connor Sydney - England - 1898 - 260 pages
...quiet bowling-greens and calm quadrangles, who were still, like Wordsworth, in the preceding century, " Misled in estimating words, not only By common inexperience...living voice To carry meaning to the natural heart, To tell us what is passion, what is truth, What reason, what simplicity, what sense." It is an instructive... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 388 pages
...says of himself, speaking of his youth : — "In fine, I was a better judge of thoughts than words, Misled in estimating words, not only By common inexperience...living voice To carry meaning to the natural heart; To tell us what is passion, what is truth, What reason, what simplicity and sense." 2 Though he here... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1904 - 676 pages
...clear nights Alone, beneath this fairy work of earth. I was a better judge of thoughts than words, Misled in estimating words, not only By common inexperience...living voice To carry meaning to the natural heart ; To tell us what is passion, what is truth, What reason, what simplicity and sense. More frequently... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1904 - 994 pages
...things removed From a familiar sympathy. — In fine, I was a better judge of thoughts than words, Misled in estimating words, not only By common inexperience...niceties, The dangerous craft, of culling term and phrase 1 10 From languages that want the living voice To carry meaning to the natural heart; To tell us what... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1904 - 416 pages
...things removed From a familiar sympathy. — In fine, I was a better judge of thoughts than words, Misled in estimating words, not only By common inexperience...niceties, The dangerous craft of culling term and phrase tio From languages that want the living voice To carry meaning to the natural heart ; To tell us what... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1904 - 1002 pages
...to things r moved From a familiar sympathy. — In fine, I was a better judge of thoughts than wort Misled in estimating words, not only By common inexperience...classic niceties, The dangerous craft, of culling term phrase From languages that want the living roi To carry meaning to the natural heart; To tell us what... | |
 | Eric Sutherland Robertson - Lake District (England) - 1911 - 480 pages
...things removed From a familiar sympathy. — In fine, I was a better judge of thoughts than words, Misled in estimating words, not only By common inexperience...living voice To carry meaning to the natural heart ; To tell us what is passion, what is truth, What reason, what simplicity and sense." In this period... | |
 | Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - Authors - 1914 - 332 pages
...a household word over half the world, so he is rather too ready to turn up his nose at that — — trade in classic niceties, The dangerous craft of...living voice To carry meaning to the natural heart. Of course he has been writing all this time, to the detriment of his reading, confined much to congenial... | |
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In fine, I was a better judge of thoughts than words, Misled in estimating words, not only By common inexperience of youth, But by the trade in classic niceties, The dangerous craft of culling term and phrase From languages that want the living voice... 
