 twas ever meant That we should pry far off yet be unraise'd ; That we should pore, and dwindle as we pore. Viewing all objects unremittingly In disconnexion dead and spiritless ; And still dividing, and dividing still, Break down all grandeur, still unsatisfied...  The Monitor - Page 1061879Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 456 pages
...ancient Wisdom ; go, demand Of mighty Nature, if 'twas ever meant That we should pry far off yet be unraised ; That we should pore, and dwindle as we pore, Viewing all objects unremittingly In disconnexion dead and spiritless ; And still dividing, and dividing still, Break down all grandeur,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...; go, demand < tf mighty Nature, if 't was ever meant That we should pry far off yet be un raised ; That we should pore, and dwindle as we pore, Viewing all objects unremittingly In disconnexion dead and spiritless; And still dividing, and dividing still, Break down all grandeur,... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin - Literature - 1833 - 550 pages
...ancient wisdom ; go, demand Of mighty Nature, if Ч was ever meant That we should pry far off, yet be unraised ; That we should pore, and dwindle as we...unsatisfied With the perverse attempt, while littleness May become more little ; waging thus An impious warfare with the very life Of our own souls.* We repeat,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1836 - 398 pages
...ancient Wisdom ; go, demand Of mighty Nature, if 'twas ever meant That we should pry far off yet be unraised ; That we should pore, and dwindle as we pore, Viewing all objects unremittingly In disconnexion dead and spiritless ; • And still dividing, and dividing still, Break down all grandeur,... | |
 | William Whewell - Induction (Logic) - 1837 - 646 pages
...VOLUME THE THIRD. Go, demand Of mighty Nature, if 'twas ever meant That we should pry far off and be unraised, That we should pore, and dwindle as we pore, Viewing all objects unremittingly In disconnexion dead and spiritless; And still dividing, and dividing still, Break down all grandeur,... | |
 | William Whewell - Science - 1837 - 1046 pages
...THIRD. VOL. III. Go, demand Of mighty Nature, if 'twas ever meant That we should pry far off and be unraised, That we should pore, and dwindle as we pore, Viewing all objects unremittingly In disconnexion dead and spiritless ; And still dividing, and dividing still, Break down all grandeur,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 796 pages
...ancient wisdom : go, demand Of mighty nature, if 'twas ever meant That we should pry far off yet be to relieve, how exquisite the bliss !" I heard пае mair, for chanticleer Shook off the p disconnexion dead and spiritless ; And still dividing, and dividing still, Break down all grandeur,... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - English poetry - 1838 - 752 pages
...ancient wisdom : go, demand Of mighty nature, if 'twas ever meant That we should pry far off yet be unraised ; That we should pore, and dwindle as we pore, Viewing all objects unremittingly In disconnexion dead and spiritless ; And still dividing, and dividing still, Break down all grandeur,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1841 - 400 pages
...ancient Wisdom ; go, demand Of mighty Nature, if 'twas ever meant That we should pry far off yet be unraise'd ; That we should pore, and dwindle as we pore. Viewing all objects unremittingly In disconnexion dead and spiritless ; And still dividing, and dividing still, Break down all grandeur,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...ancient wisdom ; go, demand Of mighty nature, if 'twas ever meant That we should pry far off, yet be unraised : That we should pore, and dwindle as we...unsatisfied • With the perverse attempt, while littleness ,i May yet become more little ; waging thus , • An impious warfare with the very life Of our own... | |
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