 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 530 páginas
...regarded it as presumptive evidence of a prior state of existence, I think it right to protest against a conclusion, which has given pain to some good and...than an element in our instincts of immortality." The argument of the poem proceeds from stanza to stanza as follows: 1. I can no longer see the celestial... | |
 | George McLean Harper - 1916 - 490 páginas
...to inculcate such a belief " — ie, belief in a prior state of existcnce. " It is," he continues, " far too shadowy a notion to be recommended to faith,...that, though the idea is not advanced in revelation, i here is nothing there to contradict it, and the fall of man presents an analogy in its favour." This... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 566 páginas
...of existence, I think it right to protest against a conclusion, which has given pain to some £ood and pious persons, that I meant to inculcate such...than an element in our instincts of immortality." The argument of the poem proceeds from stanza to stanza as follows: iI can no longer see the celestial... | |
 | George McLean Harper - 1916 - 482 páginas
...humiliating concession to pragmatical and timid readers. " I think it right," he says, " to protest against a conclusion, which has given pain to some good and...pious persons, that I meant to inculcate such a belief " — ie, belief in a prior state of existn. 9 ence. " It is," he continues, " far too shadowy a notion... | |
 | Edward Staples Drown - 1922 - 176 páginas
...preexistence of souls, we should misinterpret Wordsworth's thought. He himself in a note says that the idea "is far too shadowy a notion to be recommended to...than an element in our instincts of immortality," that he used it "as a poet." So with St. Paul we must be on our guard lest we stretch a form of expression... | |
 | University of Wisconsin - 1922 - 300 páginas
...regarded it as presumptive evidence of a prior state of existence, I think it right to protest against a conclusion, which has given pain to some good and...persons, that I meant to inculcate such a belief. ... I took hold of the notion of preoxlstence as having sufficient foundation in humanity for authorising... | |
 | George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - 1923 - 864 páginas
...has gone, the poet tells whence it came. Concerning the idea of pre-existence, he says in his note: "It is far too shadowy a notion to be recommended...that, though the idea is not advanced in revelation [ie the Bible . there is nothing there to contradict it, and the fall of Man presents an analogy in... | |
 | Solomon Francis Gingerich - 1924 - 296 páginas
...sensation, deeper than "sense and outward things." Wordsworth rightly says in his note on pre-existence : "It is far too shadowy a notion to be recommended to faith as more than an element in our instinct of immortality Having to wield some of the mind's elements when I was impelled to write this... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1924 - 774 páginas
...pious persons,' that Wordsworth felt impelled afterwards to ' protest against the conclusion that [he] meant to inculcate such a belief. It is far too shadowy a notion,' he continues, ' to be recommended to faith as more than an element in our instincts of immortality.'... | |
 | Peter L. Rudnytsky - 1993 - 360 páginas
...préexistence as to a literal article of his faith. "I think it right," he wrote, "to protest against a conclusion, which has given pain to some good and...persons, that I meant to inculcate such a belief" (PW 4:464). But this disavowal removes one problem only to create another, perhaps more troubling still,... | |
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I believe, if he would look back, could bear testimony, and I need not dwell upon it here; but having in the poem regarded it as presumptive evidence of a prior state of existence, I think it right to protest against a conclusion, which has given pain... 
