| Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 oldal
...nicer than ever We thought that it possibly could. Good and Clever William Wordsworth 1770-1850 114 . . .Where the statue stood Of Newton with his prism and...ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone. [Newton'a Statue at Trinity College, Cambridge] The Prelude 1850, Book III, written 1779-1805 115 Lost... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 oldal
...grave or gaudy, Doctors, Students, Streets, Lamps, Gateways, Flocks of Churches, Courts and Towers: 101 P." Edith P. Hazen( EnRP; FaBoPP; HAP; ImOP; OAEL-2 IV. Summer Vacation 102 And open field, through which the pathway wound,... | |
| Don H. Bialostosky - 1992 - 336 oldal
...feels compelled to make his poetry answerable to the scientific spirit epitomized there by the statue "of Newton with his prism and silent face, / The marble.../ Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone" (1850, III, 61-63). Wordsworth declares not only that "Poetry is passion" but at the same time that... | |
| David Millard Locke - 1992 - 268 oldal
...long have we conceived the ideal scientist in the image of the poet's meditation on Newton's statue: "with his prism and silent face, / The marble index of a mind forever / Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone." Science itself must now be envisioned not... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 oldal
...neighbour too, And from my pillow, looking forth by light Of moon or favouring stars, I could behold 60 The antechapel where the statue stood Of Newton with...ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone. Of College labours, of the Lecturer's room All studded round, as thick as chairs could stand, With... | |
| Graham Chainey - 1995 - 388 oldal
...version published in 1850 (here followed throughout): 'gloomy courts' in the original 1805 version. 94 Of Newton with his prism and silent face, The marble...ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone. (111,46-63) Wordsworth hero-worshipped Newton. His school at Hawkshead had given him an excellent start... | |
| Richard Dawkins - 2008 - 198 oldal
...William Wordsworth: And from my pillow, looking forth by light Of moon or favouring stars, I could behold The antechapel where the statue stood Of Newton with...and silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever i Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone. With a few exceptions I have limited this list to... | |
| Arthur Holmberg - 1996 - 260 oldal
...spectator to a new realm of experience, often symbolized in Wilson by a magic forest. Wordsworth's image of Newton "with his prism and silent face, / The marble.../ Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone" sums up the Wilsonian voyage of the imagination, always seeking, always searching. In Wilson the wanderer... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 oldal
...answer to Pope's: It did not last: the Devil, howling "Ho! Let Einstein be!" Restored the status quo. 2 Where the statue stood Of Newton with his prism, and...ever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, (1770-1850) British poet. The Prelude, bk. 3, I. 60-3 (1850). Referring to the... | |
| Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - 1997 - 308 oldal
...the enlargement of one's own vision? Is there no real content to Wordsworth's famous lines on Newton: The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought alone. Indeed, there is ample evidence that the very greatest artists, in their ennobled maturity, withdraw... | |
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