 | William Wordsworth - Literary Criticism - 1970 - 372 pages
...works of Man, But with high objects, with enduring tilings, With life and nature, purifying thus [410] The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline, 440 Both pain and fear, until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the hearI. Nor was this fellowship... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Literary Collections - 1985 - 84 pages
...important to the poet (see Pedlar, 30-43)• 1 25 hourly objects those present all the time - at any hour. With life and Nature, purifying thus The elements...recognise A grandeur in the beatings of the heart. Nor was this fellowship vouchsafed to me With stinted kindness. In November days, When vapours rolling... | |
 | Stephen Gill - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 132 pages
...human soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things, With life and Nature, purifying thus The elements...recognise A grandeur in the beatings of the heart. One word here, 'vulgar', has shifted in meaning since the eighteenth century and recourse to the dictionary... | |
 | Robert Brinkley, Keith Hanley - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 396 pages
...human soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with eternal things, With life and Nature, purifying thus The elements...sanctifying by such discipline Both pain and fear, until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart. (47-58) We have in 'Was It For This' what nowhere... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...human soul; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things 410 With life and nature, purifying thus The elements...recognise A grandeur in the beatings of the heart. Nor was this fellowship vouchsafed to me With stinted kindness. In November days, When vapours rolling... | |
 | Steven Bruhm - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 210 pages
...worthy of myself! Praise to the end! (I,ll.344-350) This calm existence and spiritual sublime comes from Nature purifying thus The elements of feeling and...sanctifying, by such discipline, Both pain and fear; until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart. (I,ll.410-414) An interfusion of "terrors, pains,... | |
 | Peter Hughes, Robert Rehder - Authors and printing - 1996 - 258 pages
...face-value his epic-machinery) chose from the first ("to interweave [his] passions") with eternal things, With life and Nature, purifying thus the elements...sanctifying by such discipline Both pain and fear, until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart. ( Was It For This, 53-8) The interweaving of emotion... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 552 pages
...human soul, Nor with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things, "With life and nature : purifying thus The elements...sanctifying by such discipline Both pain and fear, until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart. Nor was this fellowship vouchsaf 'd to me With stinted... | |
 | Roni Natov - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 320 pages
...398—400). Wordsworth offers this story as an exemplar of how feeling and thought are bound together by "[b]oth pain and fear, until we recognise/ A grandeur in the beatings of the heart" (I, 11. 413-5). Like Nature, the human heart is infinitely complex, resonant with "all forms the characters... | |
 | Anne E. Lenehan - Astronauts - 2004 - 496 pages
...human soul; Not with the mean and vulgar works of Man; But with high objects, with enduring things, With life and nature; purifying thus The elements...thought, And sanctifying by such discipline Both pain and fear,-until we recognise A grandeur in the beatings of the heart. William Wordsworth Like one of his... | |
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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 that build up our human soul ; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects ; with enduring things,... 
