 The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he cherishes and loves it in his solitude: the Poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion.  New Englander and Yale Review - Page 558edited by - 1875Full view - About this book
 | Anne Burrows Gilchrist - 1887 - 442 pages
...appeal. And now at last the day dawns which Wordsworth prophesied of: "The man of science," he wrote, "seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he...truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in... | |
 | William Angus Knight, Wordsworth Society - 1889 - 388 pages
...us, and by no habitual and direct sympathy connecting us with our fellow-beings. The man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he...truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is... | |
 | William Angus Knight - 1889 - 394 pages
...connecting us with our fellow-beings. The man of science seeks truth as a remote ami unknown iMjnefaclor ; he cherishes and loves it in his solitude : the poet, singing a song in which all hunun beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1892 - 214 pages
...connecting us with our fellow-beings. The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; 1 he cherishes and loves it in his solitude: the Poet,...presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly 15 companion. (Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned- expression... | |
 | Edward Caird - 1892 - 314 pages
...emotional life of man. " The man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor, he cherishes it and loves it in his solitude ; the poet, singing a...truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 288 pages
...us, and by no habitual and direct sympathy connecting us with our fellowbeings. The man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he...truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 284 pages
...us, and by no habitual and direct sympathy connecting us with our fellowbeings. The man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he...truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1893 - 394 pages
...us, and by no habitual and direct sympathy connecting us with our fellow-beings. The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he...truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1897 - 250 pages
...us, and by no habitual and direct sympathy connecting us with our fellow-beings. The Man of Science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor ; he...truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1895 - 368 pages
...marvels of our modern time, Wordsworth uttered a remarkable prophecy. " The man of Science," he wrote, "seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he...truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is... | |
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