 | 1856 - 560 pages
...nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised." The mind of man has an appetite for the truth. " Hence, in a season of calm weather, Though inland...travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty voices rolling evermore " All this was not exactly in Gibbon's way, and... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 590 pages
...season of calm weather, Tho' inland far we be, Our souls have sight of the immortal sea That brought us hither,— Can in a moment travel thither ; And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty voices rolling evermore." Finally, the noble apostrophe forming the close... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1856 - 520 pages
...calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal s«a Which brought us hither, — Can in a moment travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty voices rolling evermore ." All this was not exactly in Gibbon's way, and... | |
 | 1857 - 834 pages
...young days with all their immortal memories come back to illume the soul with their vanished light. " Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far...travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore I" The Scotchman, Sir Walter tells us of, who said... | |
 | Religious poetry, American - 1857 - 372 pages
...of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea That brought us hither ; Can in a moment travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore." WORDSWORTH. TELL me, brother, what are we ? Spirits... | |
 | Warren Stevenson - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 166 pages
...splendid synaesthetic oxymoron, simultaneously seen and heard as a symbolic vision of the ultimate goal: Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far...travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. (165-71; emphasis added) However latently, we also... | |
 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 304 pages
...thought, All souls, that in their cradles Thou hast bought? Compare Wordsworth: Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in...travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. 76 Even though the compressed typology in the finale... | |
 | Trevor Ravenscroft, Tim Wallace-Murphy - Religion - 1997 - 268 pages
...Must travel, still is Nature's Priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended; . . . . . . Hence, in a season of calm weather, Though inland...travel thither And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. It is tragic that Wordsworth in his later years... | |
 | Rudolf Steiner - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1997 - 230 pages
...the east Must travel, still is Nature's Priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended. Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far...travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. It is not easy in an age of widespread intellectualism... | |
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Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. 
