...grade than those with which they are endowed, it is nevertheless of rare occurrence, and great utility. He who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used. It is not meant to deny that there is both pleasure and profit in having access and habitual intercourse...

...example from the many that might be cited : " Know that pride Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, IB littleness; that he who feels contempt For any living thing hath faculties Which he hath never used, that thought with him Is in its infancy. * * * Be wiser, thou ! Instructed that true...

...their perusal those fine lines of Wordsworth, which form part of a poem already twice quoted: — " He who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he hath never used ; and thought, with him Is in its infancy." Whatever the worth or the attainments of...

...ascending, and descending down, Even to inferior kinds " ; and to teach the last hyperbole of toleration, that " He who feels contempt For any living thing hath faculties Which he has never used." That Wordsworth was unsuccessful in comments on the politics of the hour, and blundered often in applying...

...srf/-inquiries are the road That lead to virtue and to God. FROM THE GREEK OP PYTHAGORAS. SELF-KNOWLEDGE. If thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Henceforward be thou warned ; and know that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness...

...are the road That lead to virtue and to God. FROM THE GREEK OF PYTHAGORAS. SELF-KXOWLEDGE. If thou he one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Henceforward be thou warned ; and know that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness...

...ТШ his eye streamed with tears. In this deep vale He died, — this seat his only monument. If Thon be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination...stranger ! henceforth be warned ; and know that pride, Hove'er disguised in its own majesty, U littleness ; that he who feels contempt For any Kving thing,...

...And this lesson is repeated in various forms throughout the works of Wordsworth. In one poem he says, that " He who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used; and that thought with him Is in its infancy." And we find him at all times endeavouring to extract...

...untainted joys, without remorse, Tli ' intemperate sinner's never-failing curse. ARMSTRONG. PRIDE. IP thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger! henceforth be wara'd, and know that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he who feels...

...the poet all that he might have won of good, yet from how much of evil did it shield and save him ! " If thou be one, whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure," is elsewhere his own appeal to his reader, and it implies of a truth no vain nor idle vaunt. True taste...