 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 770 pages
...consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude we have eyes, yet see not, ears that heap not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand....preparing among other poems, THE DARK LADIE, and the CHRISTABEL,* in which I should have more nearly realized my ideal than 1 had done in my first attempt.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Superexlibris - 1871 - 630 pages
...inexhaustible treasure, but for which, in consequence of the fi'in of familiarity and selfish solicitude, \ve have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts...preparing, among other poems, The Dark Ladie and the Christabel, in which I should have more nearly realised my ideal than I had done in my first attempt.... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 pages
...consequence of the fi'm of familiarity and selfish solicitnde, we have eyes yet sec not, ears that hcar not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand....preparing, among other poems, The Dark Ladie and the Christaéel, in which I should have more nearly realised my ideal than I had done in my first attempt,... | |
 | william blackwood - 1871 - 810 pages
...treasure, but for which, in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, wo have eyes and see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand." This attempt to teach and elevate it by ostentatiously simple means, roused the public into something... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Biography - 1872 - 740 pages
...world before us; an inexhaustible treasure, but for which, in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes, yet see not;...hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand "—certainly something well worthy undertaking, which we may be thankful there was a power above that... | |
 | T. LINDSEY ASPLAND - 1874 - 492 pages
...world before us ; an inexhaustible treasure, but for which, in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes, yet see not,...preparing, among other poems, " The Dark Ladie " and the " Christabel", in which I should have more nearly realised my ideal than I had done in my first attempt.... | |
 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - 272 pages
...world before us — an inexhaustible treasure, but for which, in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes, yet see not,...Mariner," and was preparing, among other poems, " The Park Ladio " ancl the " Christabel," in which I have more nearly realised my ideal than I had done... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Theology - 1899 - 536 pages
...world before us ; an inexhaustible treasure, but for which, in consequence of the film of familiarity, we have eyes, yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.' 1 1 Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, p. 145. Poetry, then, in this conception, will be the avenue to... | |
 | George Henry Calvert - Literary Criticism - 1878 - 278 pages
...world before us ; an inexhaustible treasure, but for which, in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not,...not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand." In putting the plan into execution, Wordsworth was so much more industrious, and the number of his... | |
 | Charles John Abbey - Church and state - 1878 - 606 pages
...but for which, in consequence of the feeling of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes that see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.' 2 He saw— That outward forms, the loftiest, still receive Their finest influence from the life within;... | |
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... things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us; an inexhaustible treasure, but for... 
