 | Sir Henry Jones - 1909 - 320 pages
...elsewhere dispersed and sown abroad, are brought together and blended into harmony. Hence man's spirit is 'A thousand times more beautiful than the earth On which he dwells : . . . . . . itself Of quality and fabric more divine.' Frail as man is, and mortal, yet the ' liberty... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1912 - 738 pages
...nature, we to them may speak A lasting inspiration, sanctified By reason, hlest hy faith ; what we have loved Others will love, and we will teach them how ; instruct them how the mind of man hecomes A thousand times more heantiful than the earth On which he dwells, ahove this frame of things... | |
 | Guy Andrew Thompson - 1914 - 230 pages
...Divinity itself" (Works, Grosart, ii, 103). 14 Smith, i, 156, 157. Cp. Wordsworth (end of Prelude): The mind of man becomes A thousand times more beautiful...earth On which he dwells, above this frame of things In beauty exalted, as it is itself Of quality and fabric more divine. Webbe and Puttenham, neither... | |
 | Colin McAlpin - 1915 - 460 pages
...do." And even Wordsworth, keen lover of nature as he was, held that man, in his divine essence, was " A thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells." The soul's tragedy is, therefore, of profounder moment and of deeper interest than is the glory of... | |
 | Charles Wilfred Valentine - 1921 - 212 pages
...Nature, we to them will speak A lasting inspiration, sanctified By reason, blest by faith : | what we have loved, Others will love, and we will teach them...the earth On which he dwells, | above this frame of tilings (Which, 'mid all revolution in the hopes And fears of men, doth still remain unchanged) | In... | |
 | Vivian Trow Thayer - 1923 - 808 pages
...together toward forwarding a new and better day. They will teach others to love what they have loved and instruct them how the mind of man becomes a thousand...earth on which he dwells, above this frame of things — "In beauty exalted, as it is itself Of quality and fabric more divine." This is obviously more... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1970 - 372 pages
...loved, Others will love ; and we may teach them how ; Instruct them how the mind of man becomes 440 A thousand times more beautiful than the earth On which he dwells, above this Frame of things [450] (Which, 'mid all revolutions in the hopes And fears of men, doth still remain unchanged) In beauty... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 1971 - 516 pages
...Wordsworth and Coleridge as "Prophets of Nature," joint laborers in the work of man's redemption: what we have loved, Others will love, and we will teach them...more beautiful than the earth On which he dwells. Blake, had he read this, would have approved, though he might have wondered where Wordsworth had accounted... | |
 | John Elder - 1985 - 256 pages
...Book XIV, we find him overreaching in his claims for poetry's dominance over the earth: . . . what we have loved Others will love, and we will teach them...more beautiful than the earth On which he dwells. . . . 4" But such extreme assertiveness, as Hartman has shown, always brings Wordsworth to a standstill;... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 pages
...a mighty scheme of truth"—that has as its purpose to tell humanity that life can be good because "the mind of man becomes A thousand times more beautiful than the earth On which he dwells. . . ." Perhaps the differences between the Johnsonian and the Wordsworthian views of poetry appear... | |
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Instruct them how the mind of man becomes A thousand times more beautiful than the earth On which he dwells... 
