 In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs: in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed; the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society,...  Poems - Page 381by William Wordsworth - 1815Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1908 - 636 pages
...and love. In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs : in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and...passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, ax it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time. The objects of the Poet's thoughts are everywhere... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1909 - 572 pages
...and love. In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs, in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and...over all time. The objects of the Poet's thoughts are everywhere ; though the eyes and senses of man are, it is true, his favourite guides, yet he will follow... | |
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman - Prefaces - 1910 - 458 pages
...and love. In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs: in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and...over all time. The objects of the Poet's thoughts are everywhere; though the eyes and senses of man are, it is true, his favourite guides, yet he will follow... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1911 - 296 pages
...and love. In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs, in spite of things silently gone out of mind and things...though the eyes and senses of man are, it is true, his favorite guides, yet he will follow wheresoever he can find an atmosphere of sensation in which to... | |
 | John Cann Bailey - English poetry - 1911 - 232 pages
...critical essays of his which Mr. Nowell Smith has just reprinted with an excellent introduction, ' the poet binds together by passion and knowledge the...over all time. The objects of the poet's thoughts are everywhere. . . . Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge ; it is as immortal as the heart of... | |
 | John Cann Bailey - English poetry - 1911 - 232 pages
...just reprinted with an excellent introduction, ' the poet binds together by passion and know* ledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread...over all time. The objects of the poet's thoughts are everywhere. . . . Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge ; it is as immortal as the heart of... | |
 | English Association - English literature - 1912 - 212 pages
...but he conceived a wide social activity for writers of verse. He foresaw that the Poet would ' bind together by passion and knowledge the vast empire...is spread over the whole earth, and over all time '. I suppose that in composing those huge works, so full of scattered beauties, but in their entirety... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - Criticism - 1913 - 484 pages
...best of grounds for declaring that " the objects of the poet's thoughts are everywhere," and that " though the eyes and senses of man are, it is true, his favourite guides, yet he will follow wherever he can find an atmosphere of sensation in which to move his wings." 1 It may indeed be said... | |
 | George Lyman Kittredge, Frank Edgar Farley - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1913 - 394 pages
...of angry defiance. 2. Point out all the abstract, all the collective, and all the compound nouns. 1. The poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society. — WORDSWORTH. 2. The country is now showing symptoms of greenness and warmth. 3. When the public... | |
 | Hubert Bland - England - 1914 - 316 pages
...science. In spite of the difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs, in spite of things silently gone out of mind and things...is spread over the whole earth and over all time. . . . Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge — it is as immortal as the heart of man. If the... | |
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