 | Sara S. Hennell - Faith - 1860 - 436 pages
...office, Through all the niAghty commonwealth of things ; Up from the creeping plant to sovereign Man."* " To every Form of being is assigned," — Thus calmly...natures ; in the stars Of azure heaven, the unenduring cloudu, In flower and tree, in every pebbly stone That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks, The... | |
 | Margaret Plues - Wild flowers - 1863 - 438 pages
...Car/vt. CHAPTER IX. UMBELLIFER.E — ARALIACE^E — CORNACE^. " To every Form of Being is assigned An active principle ; howe'er removed From sense and...in all natures ; in the stars Of azure heaven, the unending clouds, In flower and tree, in every pebbly stone That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks,... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 1865 - 452 pages
...backs and catch the golden fruit as it falls in showers around us. " To every form of being is assigued An active principle ; howe'er removed From sense and...observation, it subsists In all things, in all natures." Yes ; activity, toil is the law of our being ; and as such it manifests itself in everything around... | |
 | Living - Bible - 1867 - 284 pages
...Wordsworth has thrown the same thought into more general shape : — " To every form of being is assign'd An active principle : — howe'er removed From sense...in all natures ; in the stars Of azure heaven, the uucnduring clouds, In flower and tree, in every 'pebbly stone That para the track*, the The moving... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1869 - 752 pages
...dead—Gratitude to tho Almighty —Return over the Lake—Farting with tho Solitary— Under what circumstances. "To every Form of being is assigned," Thus calmly spake the venerable Sage, •"An artm Principle:—howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In all things, in all nature?;... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Superexlibris - 1871 - 630 pages
...to the Almighty—Return over the Lake — Parting with the Solitary — Under what circumstances. "To every Form of being is assigned,*' Thus calmly spake the venerable Sage, "An active Principle :— howc'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In all things, in all natures ; in the... | |
 | 1871 - 800 pages
...days by the poet Wordsworth, in his " Excursion," when he said " To every form of being is assigned An active principle : howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists / In all things, in all nature, in the stars Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds : In flower and tree, in every pebbly stone... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 pages
...venerahle Sage, " An active Principle : — howe'er removed From sense and ohservation, it suhsists In all things, in all natures ; in the stars Of azure heaven, the unenduring clonds, In flower and tree, in every pehhly stone That paves the hrooks, the stationary rocks, The... | |
 | H. Charlton Bastian - Life - 1872 - 524 pages
...active principle : howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In all things, in all nature, in the stars Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds...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... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pages
...— Under what circumstances. ,• . DISCOURSE OF THE- WANDERER, AND AN EVENING VISIT TO THE LAKE. " To every form of being is assigned," Thus calmly spake...venerable sage, " An active principle : howe'er removed :i.'. •' From sense and observation, it subsists In all things, in all natures, in the stars •... | |
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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 pave., the brooks, the stationary rocks.... 
