...which we in these days of methods and examinations may do well to consider. Wordsworth has said: — " Our childhood sits, Our simple childhood sits upon...throne That hath more power than all the elements. Dumb yearnings, hidden appetites, over ours, And they must have their food." "Burns indeed lives in...

...powers which we have lost, powers which convention and artifice have pressed and dried out of us. " Our simple childhood sits upon a throne That hath more power than all the elements." It is idle, if not immoral, to suppose that because we are trying to teach God's word to chil87 dren...

...N Dumb yearnings, hidden appetites, are ours, nd they must have their food. Our childhood sits, ur simple childhood, sits upon a throne 'That hath more power than all the elements. I guess not what this tells of Being past, 510 Nor what it augurs of the life to come ; * But so it...

...to recognize that it is so. Cf. Intimations of Immortality, 66-74 ; and The Prelude, v. 506-509 : " Dumb yearnings, hidden appetites, are ours, And they...throne That hath more power than all the elements. " The term " Abraham's bosom" is used in the Bible for heaven ; cf. Luke, xvi. 22: "The beggar died,...

...ascends Undaunted toward the imperishable heavens From her own lonely altar ? And " The Prelude," Bk. v : Our childhood sits, Our simple childhood, sits upon...throne That hath more power than all the elements. I guess not what this tells of Being past, Nor what it augurs of the life to come. An interesting parallel...

...Thou, thou alone Art everlasting, and the blessed spirits Which thou includest, as the sea her waves. Our childhood sits, Our simple childhood, sits upon...throne, That hath more power than all the elements ; I guess not what this tells of Being past, Nor what it augurs of the life to come. We must confess...

...ascends Undaunted toward the imperishable heavens From her own lonely altar ? And " The Prelude," Bk. v : Our childhood sits, Our simple childhood, sits upon...throne That hath more power than all the elements. I guess not what this tells of Being past, Nor what it augurs of the life to come. An interesting parallel...

...demands not only the noble, but also the pleasant, for happiness consists of these two."— ARISTOTLE. " Dumb yearnings, hidden appetites, are ours ; And they...throne That hath more power than all the elements." —WORDSWORTH. " Every philosopher of the present must go through Kant, and every pedagogue through...

...meant by the sovereign importance he gave childhood and the child- i mind in his " scheme of virtues.'1 Our childhood sits, — ^ Our simple childhood sits...throne • That hath more power than all the elements, i (Prelude, v. 508.) So the poet sings. But in regard to the culture of life, what does this mean?...

...statement of the doctrine which receives particular application in many of the shorter poems : — Our childhood sits, Our simple childhood, sits upon...throne That hath more power than all the elements. In a prose note to the Ode, written in his later years, the poet thought it right to protest against...