 An active principle : howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In all things, in all natures, in the stars Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds, In flower and tree, in every pebbly stone That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks, The...  The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England - Page 496by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Henry Charlton Bastian - Life - 1872 - 578 pages
...observation, it subsists In all things, in all nature, in the stars Of azure heaven, the unencluring clouds ; In flower and tree, in every pebbly stone That paves the brooks.' Whilst therefore the ancients looked upon the spirit or the 'animating principle' of any living thing... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1873 - 496 pages
...Intelligence that govern ail I sing. (Wordsworth. The Excursion.) 1 . Whate'er exista hath propsrties that spread Beyond itself, communicating good, A simple...evil mixed. — Spirit that knows no insulated spot, Rejetez donc avec dédain cette science séché « qui « divise et divise toujours les objets par... | |
 | T. LINDSEY ASPLAND - 1874 - 492 pages
...venerable sage, ' An active principle : howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In all things, in all natures, in the stars Of azure...communicating good, A simple blessing, or with evil mix'd ; Spirit that knows no insulated spot, No chasm, no solitude ; from link to link It circulates... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English poetry - 1874 - 396 pages
...Matter is animated bv a soulj__and it is this soul which thrills to meet me. "An ac&'gg j3r_inciplp" In all things, in all natures, in the stars Of azure...stationary rocks, The moving waters and the invisible air, » * * * from link to link It circulates, the soul of all the worlds. Now that which acts, lives ;... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 pages
...venerable Sage, " An active Principle : — howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In all things, in all natures; in the stars Of azure...brooks, the stationary rocks, The moving waters, and th' invisible air. Whate'er exists hath properties that spread Beyond itself, communicating good, A... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - Literary Criticism - 1875 - 374 pages
...which thrills to meet me. "An active principle " subsists In all tilings, in all natures, in the stara Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds, In flower...stone That paves the brooks; the stationary rocks, The mo ving waters and the invisible air, » * * * from link to link It circulates, the soul of all the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 574 pages
...venerable sage, " An active principle : howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In all things, in all natures, in the stars Of azure...evil mixed ; Spirit that knows no insulated spot, (269) 3I No chasm, no solitude ; from link to link It circulates, the soul of all the worlds. This... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1876 - 462 pages
...assigned . . . An active principle : — howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In all things, in all natures; in the stars Of azure...communicating good, A simple blessing, or with evil mixed; 1 Wordsworth's Works, 7 vols. 1849, vii. ; The Excursion, Preface, ix. Spirit that knows no insulated... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 828 pages
...venerable sage, "An active principle: — howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In he c ~, th' invisible air. Whate'er exists hath properties that spread Beyond itself, communicating good A... | |
 | Ernst Haeckel - Evolution - 1876 - 458 pages
...spirit that impels All thinking thing*, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. In all things, in all natures, in the stars Of azure heaven, the unrnduring clmnl>, In flower and tree, in every pebbly stonu That pnves the brooks, the stationary... | |
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