 | Leon Waldoff - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 192 pages
...realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised: But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections,...our day; Are yet a master light of all our seeing . . . (142—53) Far more than a mere rhetorical flourish, the appositional phrases that are never... | |
 | Sir William Osler - Medical ethics - 2001 - 416 pages
...of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood," stanza 9, line 151. The exact quotation is: Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day. of professional responsibility, and the whole tone of the place was stimulating and refreshing. It... | |
 | Daniel L. Schacter - Psychology - 2002 - 289 pages
...more." He celebrated the importance of the faint echoes that remained from his ever-receding past: But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all of our day, Are yet a master-light of all of our seeing. 2 The Sin of... | |
 | Frank Mehring - Nature in literature - 2001 - 194 pages
...intuitiv-visionären Wirklichkeitserfahrung erreichen und die daraus gewonnene Kraft produktiv nutzen kann. But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day. 243 Die anfanglich dargestellte Erfüllung der Natur mit einem... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 56 pages
...realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty 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,... | |
 | Kurt Fosso - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 316 pages
...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,...our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing. .. . (139,144-155) The Introduction briefly considered these lines' allusion to Hamlet's opening scene... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
