| Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 страници
...When life was sweet, I knew not why, To me my good friend Matthew spake. And thus I made reply : — " The eye, — it cannot choose but see ; We cannot...ear be still ; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, " Nor less I deern that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress ; That we can feel this... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1855 - 410 страници
...forever speaking, That nothing of itself will come, But we must still be seeking ?" And again: — " Nor less I deem that there are powers Which of themselves our miuds impress ; And we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness." These cases of infancy, reached... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 590 страници
...just, Before and when they die, And makes each soul a separate heaven, A court for Diety." Again, " The eye it cannot choose but see, We cannot bid the...that there are powers Which of themselves our minds possess; When we can feed these minds of ours In a wise passiveness. Enough of science and of art,... | |
| Boston (Mass.). School Committee - 1879 - 464 страници
...self-acting relation which is to be respected by all concerned in teaching. Nor less I deem that there nre Powers Which of themselves our minds impress ; That...passiveness. Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum Of things forever speaking, That nothing of itself will come, Hut we must still be seeking ? These few... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 556 страници
...die, And make* each soul a separate heaven, A court far Diety." Again, " The eye it cannot choose hut see, 'We cannot bid the ear be still, Our bodies feel...with our will. Nor less I deem that there are powers \VTiich of themselves our minds possess; When we can feed these minJ« of ours In a wise pas&ivencis.... | |
| 1873 - 536 страници
...night. The eye it cannot choose but see, We cannot bid the far be still ; Our bodies feel, where e'er they be, Against or with our will. Nor less I deem...powers Which of themselves our minds impress, That we c&nfeed this mind of ours In a wife passiveness. There is among teachers a lamentable lack of general... | |
| William Howitt - 1857 - 736 страници
...life was sweet, I knew not why, To me my good friend Mathew spake, And thus I made reply : — " ' The eye, it cannot choose but see ; We cannot bid...Which of themselves our minds impress ; That we can ftel this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. " ' Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum Of things for... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 страници
...When life was sweet, I knew not why, To me my good friend Matthew spake, And thus I made reply. , " The eye — it cannot choose but see ; We cannot bid...there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress ; * Written at Alfoxden in 1793. Mr. Wordsworth said this poem waa a favorite with tin; Quakers. That... | |
| Henry Morley - 1857 - 462 страници
...be a Tell or Hofer, if I could. Let us not be slaves to our senses. It is said, to our shame, that " The eye— it cannot choose but see ; We cannot bid...feel, where'er they be, Against or with our will." But we can shut our eyes against the light, and very often do ; we can stop our ears ; and as for the... | |
| 1858 - 460 страници
...spake, And thus I made reply : — " The eye, — it cannot choose but see ; We cannot bid the car be still ; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against...Which of themselves our minds impress ; That we can feel this mind of ours In a wise passiveaess. " Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum Of things for ever... | |
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