 | Jerome J. McGann - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 238 pages
...and an ethical sense and sensibility: all declare For what th' eternal maker has ordain'd The pow'rs of man: we feel within ourselves His energy divine:...beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being. (622-8) These deeply correspondent passages express a core experience of sensibility. The sublime gesture... | |
 | Mark Akenside - History - 1996 - 616 pages
...unwearied course, The elements and seasons: all declare For what th' eternal maker has ordain'd The pow'rs of man: we feel within ourselves His energy divine: he tells the heart, 625 He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and... | |
 | Phyllis Cole - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 401 pages
...response to the beauties of nature: All declare For what the Eternal Maker has ordained The powers of man. He tells the heart He meant, He made us to behold...being; to be great like Him, Beneficent and active. 8 At least since Waldo's infancy, Mary had known such affirmations of the human capacity to hear in... | |
 | Phyllis Cole - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 404 pages
...response to the beauties of nature: All declare For what the Eternal Maker has ordained The powers of man. He tells the heart He meant. He made us to behold...life and being; to be great like Him, Beneficent and active.6 At least since Waldo's infancy, Mary had known such affirmations of the human capacity to... | |
 | Robin Dix - Poetry - 2000 - 306 pages
...draws the human back to the divine: all declare For what th' eternal maker has ordain'd The pow'rs of man: we feel within ourselves His energy divine:...being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active. Thus the men Whom nature's works charm, with GOD himself Hold converse; grow familiar, day by day,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 552 pages
...sun's unwearied course, The elements and seasons : all declare For what the Eternal Maker has ordain'd The powers of man : we feel within ourselves His energy...— to be great like him, Beneficent and active.* That general illumination should precede revolution, is a truth as obvious, as that the vessel should... | |
 | Jon Mee - History - 2005 - 342 pages
...divine. (BP82, 11. 53-6) Again this would seem to echo Akenside's poeticization of Shaftesbury: . . . we feel within ourselves His energy divine: he tells...life and being; to be great like him, beneficent and active.44 The end of Barbauld's poem does provide the standard disclaimer that acknowledges the impossibility... | |
 | Robin Dix - Literary Collections - 2006 - 426 pages
...after all, presented as God's art, and all declare For what th' eternal maker has ordain'd The pow'rs of man: we feel within ourselves His energy divine:...being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active. Thus the men Whom nature's works can charm, with GOD himself Hold converse; grow familiar, day by day,... | |
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The powers of man; we feel within ourselves His energy divine; he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active. 
