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" Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal... "
Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions - Page 590
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1881
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Spring-time with the poets, poetry selected and arranged by F. Martin

Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 pages
...liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast. Not for these I raise The song of thanks...vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing...
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Notices of the Proceedings, Volume 4

Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1866 - 730 pages
...his destiny. There will remain yet Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things ; Falling from us, vanishings — Blank misgivings of a creature...realized, High instincts, before which our mortal nature Doth tremble like a guilty thing surprised. 1864.] Professor Wanhlyn on the Synthesis of Organic Badies....
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Poems of the Inner Life: Selected Chiefly from Modern Authors

R. C. J. - English poetry - 1866 - 304 pages
...whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast:— Not for these I raise But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and...vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing...
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The Gay Science, Volume 1

Eneas Sweetland Dallas - Literary Criticism - 1866 - 362 pages
...it is scarcely possible to attribute any distinct signification. The oftenquoted passage about the ' fallings from us, vanishings, blank misgivings of a creature moving about in worlds not realized,' &c., are exquisitely beautiful, but are altogether without any special meaning. If we try to interpret...
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Poems, selected and ed. by R.A. Willmott. Illustr

William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1866 - 408 pages
...the simple creed ( if ( 'hildhood, whether busy or at rest, \Vilh new-IledgM hope still fluttering in his breast : Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise ; I'ut for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vunishings ;...
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The Church Seasons Historically and Poetically Illustrated

Alexander Henley Grant - Church year - 1869 - 646 pages
...liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether fluttering or at rest, With new-born hope for ever in his breast : Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise ; But for those obstinate questioning* Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a creature...
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Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford 1868

Sir Francis Hastings Charles Doyle (bart.), Sir Francis Hastings Doyle - English poetry - 1869 - 140 pages
...grapples, not as an imaginative exercise, but in deadly earnest with ' Those obstinate questionings Of sense, and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings, Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realised: High instincts, before which our mortal nature Doth tremble, like a guilty...
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The North British Review, Volumes 50-51

1869 - 668 pages
...the poet Wordsworth spoke when he wrote of those " Fallings from us, vnnishings, Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal nature Doth tremble like a guilty thing surprised." Bnt if we admit the ultimate necessity of cultivating...
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English Literature of Nineteenth Century: On the Plan of the Author's ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1869 - 810 pages
...liberty, the simple creed Of childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast : Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise ; 429 But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are...
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Folia silvulae: sive, Eclogae poetarum Anglicorum in Latinum et ..., Volume 2

Hubert Ashton Holden - English poetry - 1870 - 524 pages
...liberty, the simple creed of childhood, whether busy or at rest, with new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast: — • not for these I raise the song...vanishings ; blank misgivings of a Creature moving about in worlds not realised, high instincts before which our mortal nature did tremble like a guilty thing...
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