 Dumb yearnings, hidden appetites, are ours, And they must have their food. Our childhood sits, Our simple childhood, sits upon a 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...  The Philology of the English Tongue - Pagina 592di John Earle - 1880 - 700 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1032 pagine
...bound of smart reproach, Such as an idler deals with in his shame, I to the sport betook myself again. A gracious spirit o'er this earth presides, And o'er...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; But so it is, and,... | |
 | Frederick Clarke Prescott - 1922 - 354 pagine
...monkish lamps; Fictions, for ladies of their love, devised 1 Milton, Samson Agonistes, last two lines. By youthful squires; adventures endless, spun By the...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; But so it is; and,... | |
 | Frederick Clarke Prescott - 1922 - 350 pagine
...warrior in old age, Out of the bowels of those very schemes In which his youth did first extra vagate; These spread like day, and something in the shape...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; But so it is; and,... | |
 | Adolph Charles Babenroth - 1922 - 424 pagine
...center of his philosophy. 1 In The Prelude he has written of childhood in terms of sanctifi cat ion : . 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 ; But so it is. (V,... | |
 | Pamela Grey - 1924 - 168 pagine
...Liliputs. And so the caravan went home, in lumbering leisure. FURTHER SAYINGS OF THE CHILDREN. CHAPTER I. "Our childhood sits Our simple childhood, sits upon...throne That hath more power than all the elements." Wordsworth, THE sayings, harvested in these pages, are what Wordsworth calls, " rememberable things... | |
 | Solomon Francis Gingerich - 1924 - 298 pagine
...first and second books, but by what they imply they belong where they are. In Book Five the poet says : Our simple childhood, sits upon a 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; — (lines 508-511)... | |
 | Gesiena Andreae - 1925 - 150 pagine
...right understanding what childhood means, Wordsworth expresses in the lines of Prelude V, when he says: Our simple childhood sits upon a throne That hath more power than all the elements. Having given a survey of the place of childhood in English poetry of the first half of the 18th century,... | |
 | 1926 - 410 pagine
...governments, the efficiency of physicians, nurses, health officers, and educators. ' ' SIR ARTHUR NEWSHOLME. " Dumb yearnings, hidden appetites, are ours. And they...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 ; But so it is ;... | |
 | Colorado College - 1904 - 700 pagine
...to recall his childhood, but he does not deify it. He could never have agreed with Wordsworth that "Our childhood sits, Our simple childhood sits upon...throne That hath more power than all the elements."* *Prelude, Bk. V. Hence the difference between Rousseau and Wordsworth in educational theory. Rousseau... | |
 | Jacomina Korteling - 1928 - 196 pagine
...intuitive sensibility led him into a belief of a pre-natal existence of the soul in the bosom of Eternity. 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; But so it is, and,... | |
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