 Wisdom and spirit of the universe ! Thou soul that art the eternity of thought, That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions...  John Ruskin: A Study - Page 105by Robert Percival Downes - 1890 - 119 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion. 98 did die to look on. (I, iv) 5 The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burnt givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, CH; EnRP; FaBoPP; GN; HAP; NOBE; NoP; NU;... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...not live Like living men, moved slowly through the mind 400 By day, and were a trouble to my dreams. Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought, That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from... | |
 | Rabindranath Tagore - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 1048 pages
...the imagination which is fresh and immediate in its experiences — that exclaims in a poet's verse: Wisdom and spirit of the universe! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought, And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion. And in another poet's words it speaks... | |
 | Philip Hobsbaum - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 220 pages
...there are several Shakespeares. There is Wordsworth hortatory; being heard by the crowd, so to speak: Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought. There is Wordsworth, only a few lines further on in The Prelude, being narrative, telling a story:... | |
 | E. S. Shaffer - Drama - 1998 - 456 pages
...wind that briskly blew the hair into our eyes this afternoon. Yet it is not the same and never ends Wisdom and Spirit of the Universe! Thou Soul that art the Eternity of thought! And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion! There is never a last thing while we... | |
 | Zong-qi Cai - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 386 pages
...nature: Wisdom and Spir1t of the universe! Thou soul that art the Ererniry of Thought! That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion! not in vain By day or star-l1ght thus from my first dawn Of Childhood d1dst Thou inrertwine for me The passions that build... | |
 | Leon Waldoff - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 192 pages
...history he is relating in order to address Coleridge or, more commonly, a spirit or supernatural power ("Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought" [I.40I— 2]), is the most obviously dramatic of the strategies that he employs in his act of selfrepresentation.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 552 pages
...GROWTH OF GENIUS FROM THE INFLUENCES OF NATURAL OBJECTS ON THE IMAGINATION IN BOYHOOD AND EARLY YOUTH. Wisdom and spirit of the universe ! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought 1 And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion 1 not in vain, By day or star-light,... | |
 | Nan Bauer Maglin, Alice Radosh - Business & Economics - 2003 - 398 pages
...more fully. Like Wordsworth in his autobiographical poem, The Prelude, I see and hear in nature the "Wisdom and Spirit of the Universe / Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought, / That giv'st to forms and images a breath / And everlasting Motion!" (Book First, 11. 401-404). I live near... | |
 | Stephen Gill - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 324 pages
...like it in Wordsworth's most studied poems, equally difficult and equally challenging. For example: 'Wisdom and spirit of the universe, / Thou soul that art the eternity of thought, / That giv'st to forms and images a breath / And everlasting motion' (now recognized as Prelude, 1805 i 428-31,... | |
| |
