 | Meyer Howard Abrams - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 420 pages
...rctain'd My first creative sensibility.' 'A plastic power Abode with me, a forming hand,' and then: An auxiliar light Came from my mind which on the setting sun Bestow'd new splendor. . .** Coleridge, on first hearing the Prelude read aloud, adopted Wordsworth's... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Literary Collections - 1985 - 84 pages
...general tendency, but for the most Subservient strictly to the external things With which it communed. An auxiliar light Came from my mind, which on the...sun Bestowed new splendour; the melodious birds, The gentle breezes, fountains that ran on Murmuring so sweetly in themselves, obeyed A like dominion, and... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 978 pages
...setting sun / Bestowed new splendor; the melodious birds, / The gentle breezes, fountains that ran on, / Murmuring so sweetly in themselves, obeyed /...midnight storm / Grew darker in the presence of my eye' (Prelude, 2.288-293). m his versified exploration of Addison's theme, Akenside locates the source of... | |
 | Jerome Hamilton Buckley - Literary Collections - 1989 - 246 pages
...toward the idea of interchange with external nature, "unconscious intercourse with beauty" (1.562): An auxiliar light Came from my mind which on the setting sun Bestowed new splendour . . . (2.369-71) Wordsworth "Saw blessings spread around [him] like a sea" (3.396). The active mind... | |
 | Jeffrey N. Cox, Larry J. Reynolds, Larry John Reynolds - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 360 pages
...Wordsworth docs in 1799 recover the theory of fictionality enough to articulate the mind's shaping power— An auxiliar light Came from my mind, which on the setting sun Bestowed new splendor. (2:417-19) The power, or rather the sign of power, has been displaced from political struggle... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...general tendency, but for the most Subservient strictly to external things With which it communed. An auxiliar light Came from my mind, which on the setting sun 370 Bestowed new splendour; the melodious birds, The fluttering breezes, fountains that ran on Murmuring... | |
 | Frank Mehring - Nature in literature - 2001 - 194 pages
...vermittelnde Funktion, um dem Menschen einen geistigseelischen Zugang zur Wirklichkeit zu ermöglichen. „An auxiliar light/ Came from my mind which on the setting sun/ Bestowed new splendof". 316 Der Spiegel verwandelt sich zu einer Lampe, die eine passiv wahrgenommene Wirklichkeit... | |
 | Stephen Gill - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 324 pages
...exceeds our scientific differentiation of it because we belong to it in still more fundamental ways. An auxiliar light Came from my mind which on the setting sun Bestow'd new splendor; the melodious birds, The gentle breezes, fountains that ran on, Murmuring so... | |
 | Uttara Natarajan, Tom Paulin, Duncan Wu - Literary Collections - 2005 - 216 pages
...tendency, but for the most Subservient strictly to the external things With which it communed. An auxiliary light Came from my mind, which on the setting sun Bestowed new splendour; the melodious birds, The gentle breezes, fountains that ran on Murmuring so sweetly in themselves, obeyed A like dominion, and... | |
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The fluttering breezes, fountains that run on Murmuring so sweetly in themselves, obeyed A like dominion, and the midnight storm Grew darker in the presence of my eye: Hence my obeisance, my devotion hence, And hence my transport. 
