...To inquisition, long and profitless I By pain of heart — now checked — and now impelled— The intellectual power, through words and things, Went...perilous way! And from those transports, and these toil£ abstruse, Some trace am I enabled to retain Of time, else lost ; — existing unto me Only by...

...To inquisition, long and profitless ! By pain of heart — now checked— and now impelled — The intellectual power, through words and things, Went...enabled to retain Of time, else lost ; — existing unto mo Only by records in myself not found. From that abstraction I was roused, — and how ? Even as a...

...delirium set in strong, without pause. Her brain gave way, and then came that terrible spectacle, ' The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way ;' she sang bits of old songs and Psalms, stopping suddenly, mingling the Psalms of David, and the...

...as 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," ind men were roused from that abstraction ; " For lo ! the dread Castile, With all the chambers in...

...in. Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged. IKd. Monastic brotherhood, upon rock Aerial. IKd. The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way '. l JKd. Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children. 1IM. 1 Compare The Borderers....

...Wordsworth's ".Light that never was on sea or land," and his famous lines, used more than once : 1 — " The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way." Coleridge's Aids to Reflection " he did not so much value." He told also the story which I remembered...

...calm, although daring and imaginative thinker ; an Intellectual Power, which in priestly sequestration "through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way ! " Rut this is essentially a man of action. Books he wrote, but he did still more, he spoke and acted...

...life was put To inquisition long and profitless ! By fain of heart now checked — and now impelfd The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way I A worse bereavement follows. His religious faith, never fixed, breaks away from him — no uncommon...

...life was put To inquisition, long and profitless. By pain of heart, now checked and now impelled, The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way. From that abstraction I was roused, — and how?" By the fall of the Bastile, when— " From the wreck...

...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...