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" Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy soul's immensity; Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal Mind, — Mighty Prophet!... "
Independent Sixth Reader: Containing a Complete Treatise on Elocution, Both ... - Page 468
by James Madison Watson - 1875 - 472 pages
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language

1869 - 444 pages
...palsied Age, That Life brings with her in her equipage ; As if his whole vocation Were endless imitation. Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy soul's...the eternal "Mind, — Mighty Prophet ! Seer blest I On whom those truths do rest Which we are toiling all our lives to find ; Thou, over whom thy immortality...
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The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1869 - 752 pages
...Age, That Life brings with her hi her equipage; vS As if his whole vocation Were endless imitation. Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy Soul's...Haunted for ever by the eternal mind,— Mighty Prophet 1 Seer blest! On whom those truths do rest, Which we are toiling all onr lives to find, In darkness...
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The Church Seasons Historically and Poetically Illustrated

Alexander Henley Grant - 1869 - 646 pages
...palsied age, That life brings with her in her equipage ; As if his whole vocation Were endless imitation. Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy soul's...keep Thy heritage, thou Eye among the blind, That, deep and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the Eternal mind, — Mighty Prophet,...
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English Literature of Nineteenth Century: On the Plan of the Author's ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 pages
...foster-child, her inmate man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy soul's...dost keep Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind, l"In the miplity effort of his Imagination — tin1 greatest otle in the English language, — the...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth ...

William Wordsworth - 1870 - 382 pages
...Age, That Life brings with her in her equipage ; As if his whole vocation "Were endless imitation. Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy Soul's...find, In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave ; Thou, over whom thy Immortality Broods like the Day, a Master o'er a Slave, A Presence which is not...
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Imprints & Re-visions: The Making of the Literary Text, 1759-1818

Peter Hughes, Robert Rehder - 1996 - 258 pages
...Lucifer's, is addressed in stanza eight as a philosopher, a prophet in possession of hidden truths: Thou whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy soul's immensity, Thou best philosopher, who yet doth keep Thy heritage - thou eye among the blind That, deaf and silent, readst the eternal deep, Haunted...
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The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 pages
...Intimations of Immortality the child, as a symbol of all that is holy and good, is directly addressed: Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage,...deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted forever by the eternal mind. do not strictly adhere to Wordsworth's poetic principles of simple and...
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Romanticism at the End of History

Jerome Christensen - 2000 - 262 pages
...Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy Soul's immensity; Thou best Philosopher, who yet doest keep Thy heritage, thou Eye among the blind, That,...find, In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave. . . . In "what sense is a child of that age philosopher?" Coleridge later asks. "In what sense does...
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The Good Life: Alternatives in Ethics

Burton F. Porter - 2001 - 336 pages
...common day. Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy Soul's immensity; Thou best Philosopher . . . Mighty Prophet! Seer blest! On whom those truths do...rest, Which we are toiling all our lives to find, Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, . . . According...
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The Major Works

William Wordsworth - 2000 - 788 pages
...palsied Age, That Life brings with her in her Equipage; As if his whole vocation Were endless imitation. Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy Soul's...immensity; Thou best Philosopher, who yet dost keep no Thy heritage, thou Eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted...
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