...was put To inquisition, long and profitless. By pain of heart, — now cheeked, and now impelled, The Intellectual Power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way ! WORDSWORTH. DESTINY. T1TE Destiny, Minister General, That executeth in the world o'er all The purveiance...

...unnatural temper of mind in the revolt against superstition, during which, painfully and feebly — The intellectual power through words and things Went sounding on, a dim and perilous war !* The Mithraic religion had its spiritual and noble as well as its darker aspect; also such analogies...

...put To inquisition, long and profitless ! By pain of heart — now cheeked and now impelled — The intellectual power, through words and things, Went...by a flash Of lightning startled in a gloomy cave ( )f these wild hills. For, lo ! the dread Bnstile, With all the chambers in its horrid towers, Fell...

...check'd, and now impell'd — TV intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim nnd he pare8<{, ? E'en as a thoughtful shepherd by a flash Of lightning startled in a gloomy cave Of these wild hills....

...Solitary, and were suddenly roused from that long inquisition into the framework of society in which The n he 1 ..... For lo ! the dread Bastile, With all the chambers in its horrid towers, Fell to the ground :...

...and despair, " What follow'd cannot be review'd in thought, Much less, retraced in words. . . . From toils abstruse Some trace am I enabled to retain Of...existing unto me Only by records in myself not found." The same poet's Francis, in the White Doe of Rylstone, finds how stunning may be the effect of bewildering...

...Columbus alone in the world's history shows a rival type of sustained, deliberate, solitary courage. " Tho intellectual power, through words and things Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way !" The problem which Des Cartes set before him was to explain the evolution of the universe by assuming...

...with his Solitary in " The Excursion." Men had been questioning the outer and the inner life: " The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way," and men were roused from that abstraction : " For lo! the dread Bastile, With all the chambers in its horrid...

...put To inquisition long and profitless! Bv pain of heart — now checked, and now impelled — The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way. The tocsin of 1792 is -sounded, the Faubourg St. Antoine belches forth, the Bastille falls, and the...

...ruins of fallen pride ; " or taught us how, " By pain of heart, now checked, and now impelled, The intellectual power through words and things Went sounding on a dim and perilous way." He has himself described this self-determination of his genius to " preserve and enlarge the freedom...