...suffered much, to appreciate the deep sentiment of either. Wordsworth understood this when he said : ,,I have learned ,,To look on nature, not as in the...,,Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes ,,The still sad music of humanity: ,,Not rough nor grating, tho' of ample power ,,To chasten and subdue."...

...the eye. — That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur; other...hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And...

...develop more deeply the multiple aspects of religious spatiality. 1. THE MYSTICAL STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And...

...Writing like this is another way of taking on Shakespeare 'by heart'. So I cannot memorize poems anymore. 'Not for this / Faint I, nor mourn, nor murmur: other gifts / Have followed; for such loss, 1 would believe, / Abundant recompense' (Wordsworth, 'Tinrern Abbey') Though I can no longer get poems...

...characterize so much theoretical work today, we might recall the importance that Wordsworth ascribed to "the still, sad music of humanity, / Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power / To chasten and subdue." Half created and half perceived, a compound of memory and sensation, this...

...self-representation, and are used in lines 85—93 to enhance the tension just before the moment of new awareness: Not for this Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur; other...humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. These seven lines (and two half-lines) contain three halting sentences, in contrast...

...Wordsworth wandered over the hills and beside the lakes, looking and learning. In his mature years he wrote, For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.14 Wordsworth, the poet, had learned to look and learn far differently from Watt,...

...the eye.— That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur ; other...recompense. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour scurities, which had risen from an imperfect control over the re sources of his native...

...talk himself out of his despair in "Tintern Abbey" by having learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes...humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. (lines 88-93) Opie's speaker, by contrast, draws attention to her doubt. Her...

...looking and learning. In his mature years he wrote, For / have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes...humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.14 Wordsworth, the poet, had learned to look and learn far differently from Watt,...