tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. And hark! how blithe the throstle sings! He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your... MacMillan's Magazine - Page 277edited by - 1871Full view - About this book
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 pages
...green fields has spread, Books I 'tis a dull and endless strife: uome, hear the woodland linnet, iow sweet his music ! on my life, there's more of wisdom in it. And hark ! how hlithe the throstle sin^s ! le, too, is no mean preacher : Come forth into the light of things, Let... | |
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pages
...freshening lustre mellow Through all thelong green fields has spread. His first sweet evening yellow. Books ! 'tis a dull and endless strife : Come, hear...into the light of things, Let nature be your teacher. She has a world of ready wealth, Our minds and hearts to bless — Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health,... | |
| Alfred Smee - Beddington (London, England) - 1872 - 732 pages
...a caged bird, kept by a neighbour, afforded to me once when I was confined to bed for a few days. " Books ! — 'tis a dull and endless strife : Come,...music ! On my life There's more of wisdom in it."— WORDSWORTH. Only one or two of the beautiful Goldfinches (Fringilla Cardnclis, fig. 1167) have been... | |
| Francis Jacox - Authors - 1872 - 530 pages
...friend, and quit your books, Or surely you'll grow double," is Wordsworth's expostulating appeal. " Books ! 'tis a dull and endless strife : Come, hear...music ! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it." That is the poetical side of an appeal of which Hogarth's is the prosaic one, in the impromptu he is... | |
| Alfred Smee - Beddington (London, England) - 1872 - 750 pages
...neighbour, afforded to me once when I was confined to bed for a few days in early spring. " Hooks ! — 'tis a dull and endless strife : Come, hear the woodland...music ! On my life There's more of wisdom in it." — WORDSWORTH. Only one or two of the beautiful Goldfinches (Fringilla Cardnelis, fig. 1167) have... | |
| Francis Jacox - Authors - 1872 - 514 pages
...lexicon," than to mummy our benumbed souls with the circumvolutions of twenty thousand books. " For hark ! how blithe the throstle sings ! He, too, is...the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher." There, in Wordsworth as in Mrs. Browning, we have in conjunction the thrush and the light. Sweetness... | |
| Thomas McFarland - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 268 pages
...193-4. 51 Ibid., 194 n. 9. 1' Noteboohs, i. 383. Wordsworth, Poems, i. 356: 'Expostulation and Reply'. Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your Teacher. One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages... | |
| F. W. Howard, R. Giblin-Davis, D. Moore, R. Abad - Nature - 2001 - 436 pages
...insects as their sole food source. 8 Field Techniques for Studies of Palm Insects Forrest W. Howard Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher. (William Wordsworth (1770-1850). English poet. The Tables Turned] As research on insects has expanded... | |
| Frank Mehring - Nature in literature - 2001 - 194 pages
...University Press, 1987. (25-45). S. 31-32. 124 Vgl. Mclntosh, Thoreau as Romantic Naturalist. S. 68. 125 „Books! 'tis a dull and endless strife:/ Come, hear...music! on my life/ There's more of wisdom in it." Wordsworth, „The Tables Turned". Works. Vol. 1. S. 238. Auch Cowper betonte bereits vor Wordsworth... | |
| Heather Williams - Self-Help - 2010 - 210 pages
...consciousness of humanity. Of course, you have to use it to experience its transforming properties. Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. • • • William Wordsworth Objective feeling, trees and bushes behind office, ink, 2000 Remove... | |
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