 | Brennan O'Donnell - English language - 1995 - 316 pages
...employed as a four-part structure: And hark! how blithe the throstle sings! And he is no mean preacher; Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher. ("Tables Turned," 11. i3-i6) This is a strikingly simple realization of the form: four independent... | |
 | Stephen Bygrave - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 364 pages
...There's more of wisdom in it. And hark, how blithe the throstle sings! And he is no mean preacher; Come forth into the light of things, Let nature be your teacher (11.9-16, Wu, Romanticism, pp.235-6) The case of Coleridge reveals a danger in over-generalizing about... | |
 | Thomas Pfau - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 478 pages
...first sweet evening yellow. Books! 'tis a dull and endless strife, Come, hear the woodland linnet, Let Nature be your teacher. She has a world of ready wealth, Our minds and hearts to bless — Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health Truth breathed by chearfulness.... | |
 | Meinhard Winkgens - Didactic fiction, English - 1997 - 452 pages
...more of wisdom in it."), vom 'frohen Gesang' der Singdrossel heißt es: "And he is no mean preacher; Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher", und die moralische Wirkung des Frühlingswaldes wird höher bewertet als die in Texten überlieferte... | |
 | Leith Davis - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 240 pages
...strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your Teacher. (II 9-16) Instead of merely reiterating Burns's sentiments, however, Wordsworth effects a refashioning... | |
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One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good Than all the sages can. 
