...the poet all that he might have won of good, yet from how much of evil did it shield and save him ! " If thou be one, whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure," is elsewhere his own appeal to his reader, and it implies of a truth no vain nor idle vaunt. True taste...

...ascending, and descending down, Even to inferior kinds ;" and to teach the last hyperbole of toleration, that " He who feels contempt For any living thing hath faculties Which he has never used." That Wordsworth was unsuccessful in commenting on the politics of the hour, and blundered often in applying...

...said, a taste for Shakspeare involves the development of a special sense; and Wordsworth tells us, " He who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used;" and Coleridge has remarked, that " every great original author, in so far as he is truly original,...

...impossible to remain long under its control without being dwarfed by its influence. Says Wordsworth, " If thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young...living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; and thought with him Is in its infancy. The man whose eye Is ever on himself doth look on one, The...

...Till his eye streamed with tears. In this deep vale He died, — this seat his only monument. If Thoa be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination...Stranger ! henceforth be warned ; and know that pride, H<:we°er disguised in its own majesty, 1* littleness ; that he who feels contempt For any living thing,...

...axe, and the halter. Accordingly, to whom is it that Mr. Wordsworth addresses his admonition ? — ' IF thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure — ' It is one thus eminently endowed — one whose gift of imagination has filled his mind with pure...

...encircle it. In Cowley, the feeling for gardens, trees, and fountains, was natural and sincere. He was one — whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure. But it is worth remarking, that the complaint of his touching line — Business, that contradiction...

...this deep vale He died, — this seat his only monument. If Thou be one whose heart the holy forma sounded, Was left without a follower to discharge...aid is wasted upon men Who to themselves are false. it* infancy. The man whose eye Is ever on himself doth look on one, The least of Nature's works, one...

...doubled down; " Read it, Kate." And the maiden, with musical emphasis, read the following lines : — If thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young...contempt . For any living thing, hath faculties Which he hath never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy. The man whose eye Is ever on himself, doth...

...with which he closes one of his most remarkable poems. " If thou be one whose heart the holy forma Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger, henceforth...contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he hath never used ; that thought, with him, Is in its infancy. The man whose eye Is ever on himself,...