 | Colorado College - Philology, Modern - 1904 - 596 pages
...lines in the ninth book of the Excursion: "To every form of Being is assigned An active Principle ... it subsists In all things, in all natures; in the...tree, in every pebbly stone That paves the brooks . . . from link to link It circulates, the Soul of all the worlds." But there is a distinction here.... | |
 | W. K. Thomas, Warren U. Ober - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 348 pages
...fifteen lines. Both thinkers described the "active Principle" Wordsworth discusses, as he indicates how, "removed / From sense and observation, it subsists / In all things, in all natures."1 About this spirit Shaftesbury said that "no Place is empty, no Void which is not full,"14... | |
 | Hermione de Almeida - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 429 pages
...Harp" and that "active Principle" assigned "To every Form of being" in Wordsworth's Excursion that "subsists / In all things, in all natures; in the...heaven, the unenduring clouds, / In flower and tree" and rock, in "moving waters, and the invisible air. . . ."9 If German metaphysics (and perhaps an older... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1844 - 586 pages
...works of one of our modern poets. "To every form of being is assigned An active principle, hnwc'er removed From sense and observation ; it subsists In...heaven, the unenduring clouds, In flower and tree, and every pebbly SIOM 246 247 That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks, The moving waters and the... | |
 | Norman Lacey - Ethics in literature - 1948 - 144 pages
...passions in the forms of Nature are not necessarily of pure good — To every Form of being is assigned An active Principle; — howe'er removed From sense...observation, it subsists In all things, in all natures. . . Whate'er exists hath properties that spread Beyond itself, communicating good, A simple blessing,... | |
 | James Adam - 1981 - 260 pages
...indwelling soul, like the Stoic world-soul. "To every form of being is assigned An active Principle it subsists In all things, in all natures ; in the stars Of azure heaven1, the unenduring clouds, In flower and tree, in every pebbly stone That paves the brooks, the... | |
 | Medicine - 1858 - 874 pages
...13, Vol. 2. 38 And our Wordsworth thus expresses the same thing : "To every form of being is assigned An active principle : howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In all tilings, in all natures, in the stars Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds, In flower and tree, in... | |
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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.... 
