...have been ! We are reminded of the expressive lines of Wordsworth, though differently applied : •' The Intellectual Power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way."* The inventions of that period were also most important. The use of the compass was now first observed....

...life was put To inquisition long and profitless ! By pain of heart, uow checked, and now impelled, The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way. . For all this we claim no praise short of that due, not to superiority, but to perfection. There is...

...inquisition, long and profitless ! By pain of heart — now checked — and now impelled— The intelleetual power, through words and things, Went sounding on,...me Only by records in myself not found. From that abstraetion I was roused, — and how ! Even as a thoughtful shepherd by a flash Of lightning startled...

...which you have gone through. There is none to which the lines of Wordsworth are more applicable: " The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way." The most important objects with which the mind is familiar are changing their aspects as we move forward,...

...which you have gone through. There is none to which the lines of Wordsworth are more applicable: " The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way." The most important objects with which the mind is fami-liar are changing their aspects as we move forward,...

...manner in which he was roused from his melancholy:— " From that abstraction I was roused—and how 1 Even as a thoughtful shepherd by a flash Of lightning, startled in a gloomy care Of these wild hills. For, lo! the dread Bastile, With all the chambers in Us horrid towers, Fell...

...feelings in the imagery of these three lines — " By pain of heart, now check 'd, and now impell'd, The Intellectual Power, through words and things, Went sounding on, — a dim and perilous way ! " At last he is roused from this dejected mood, by the glorious promises which seemed held out to...

...feelings in the imagery of these three lines — " By pain of heart, now check 'd, and now impell'd, The Intellectual Power, through words and things, Went sounding on, — a dim and perilous way ! " At last he is roused from this dejected mood, by the glorious promises which seemed held out to...

...— and now impelled— The intellectual power, through words and tilings, Went sounding on, a dun and perilous way ! And from those transports, and...records in myself not found. From that abstraction I was routed, — and how ! Even as a thoughtful shepherd by a flash Of lightning startled in a gloomy cave...

...in which he was roused from his melancholy : — " From that abstraction I was roused — and how 7 Even as a thoughtful shepherd by a flash Of lightning, startled in a gloomy care Of these wild hills. For, lo ! the dread Bastile, With all the chambers in its horrid towers,...