 Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal...  Social influences: or, Villiers - Page 242by Proteus (pseud.) - 1846Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...creed Of Childhood, whether fluttering or at rest. With new-born hope for ever in his breast : — Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise ; But for those .obstinate questionings. Of sense and outward thingsy Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pages
...creed Of Childhood, whether fluttering or at rest, With new-born hope for ever in his breast : — Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise ; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank misgivings... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast :— Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise ; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank misgivings... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 326 pages
...creed Of childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast: — Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise ; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1818 - 390 pages
...childhood, whether busy or at rest, . ' . _ . ' > With new-fledged hope still fluttering in bis breast : — Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise ; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from as, vanishing* ; 242 Blank misgivings... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still flutteringin his breast :Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise ; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank misgivings... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in hi* breast: — must follow; on whose head must fall, Like showers of manna, if the obstinate questionings Of sense nnd outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings... | |
 | 1829 - 440 pages
...duty as men — but in the intervals of severe labor, we would refresh ourselves with the memory of those " First affections, Those shadowy recollections,...Which be they what they may, Are yet the fountain ligh{ of all our day." We are not sure that toil, and knowledge which is but a knowledge of evil, and... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 378 pages
...simple creed Of Childhood, whether fluttering or at rest. With new-born hope for ever in his breast : Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise ; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank misgivings... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Religion and science - 1834 - 608 pages
...hath passed away, 8 glory from the earth.' Wordsworth, v. 6. p. 347. LETTER Not for these I raise XI. The song of thanks and praise — But for those first...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... | |
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