 | William Wordsworth - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 56 pages
...things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did...shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet a master-light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish,... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Fiction - 2003 - 356 pages
...things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did...those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, 150 Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light... | |
 | Riccardo Dottori - Logic - 2003 - 452 pages
..."fugitive", but the "shadowy recollections" of those moments of truth in the past are, even for the adult, "yet the fountain light of all our day, / Are yet a master light of all our seeing" (IX, 149, 151-152), even in an ode devoted to a moment of dejection. For Wordsworth, those recollections... | |
 | Kurt Fosso - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 316 pages
...discovers this burden of the dead in the Immortality Ode's oft-noted allusion to Hamlet, describing "High instincts, before which our mortal Nature / Did tremble like a guilty Thing surpriz'd" (PTV, ll. 149-50; emphasis added; cf. Hamlet Ii129). Here the attributes of the deceased... | |
 | Uttara Natarajan, Tom Paulin, Duncan Wu - Literary Collections - 2005 - 216 pages
...Wordsworth adapts Cowper, and anticipates Hazlitt, when he writes in the Immortality Ode (1802-4): those first affections, Those shadowy recollections,...our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing. The philosophical idealism, which both writers share, is given concrete, empirical embodiment — 'master-spring',... | |
 | Austin Phelps - Religion - 2005 - 142 pages
...moral existence what the optic nerve is to the eye. It is one of those "high instincts". "Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of...our day; Are yet a master light of all our seeing: Truths that wake To perish never, Which neither listlessness nor mad endeavor Can utterly abolish or... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - Literary Collections - 2005 - 575 pages
...philosophy itself. — RALPH WALDO EMERSON, in a letter to his brother Edward High instincts . . . ; Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day. . . . . . truths that wake, To perish never ---- —WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, Intimations Ode The passage... | |
 | William Dell - Health & Fitness - 2005 - 108 pages
...Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a Thing surprised: But for those first affections, Those...shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet a master-light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish,... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did...our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour,... | |
 | Simon Jarvis - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 300 pages
...things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realiz'd, High instincts, before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surpriz'd: But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may,... | |
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But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing... 
