All Quotes by The Excursion
“We live by Admiration, Hope and Love.”
“Pan himself,The simple shepherd's awe-inspiring god!”
“I have seenMysterious union with its native sea.”
“So build we up the being that we are.”
“One in whom persuasion and beliefA passionate intuition.”
“Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven."”
“Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man,Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!”
“Wild is the music of the autumnal windAmong the faded woods.”
“And when the streamThat shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.”
“Wisdom married to immortal verse.”
“A man he seems of cheerful yesterdaysAnd confident tomorrows.”
“The primal duties shine aloft, like stars;Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers.”
“In a deep pool, by happy chance we sawAnother and the same!”
“Of blessed consolations in distress.”
“The vision and the faculty divine;Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse.”
“Strongest mindsHears least.”
“The imperfect offices of prayer and praise.”
“He gazed upon that mighty orb of song,The divine Milton.”
“The good die first,Burn to the socket.”
“This dull product of a scoffer's pen.”
“With battlements that on their restless frontsBore stars.”
“Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoopThan when we soar.”
“Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.”
“Monastic brotherhood, upon rockAerial.”
“The intellectual power, through words and things,Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way!”
“Society became my glittering bride,And airy hopes my children.”
“And the most difficult of tasks to keepHeights which the soul is competent to gain.”
“For by superior energies; more strict The vacillating, inconsistent good.”
“There is a luxury in self-dispraise;To meditative spleen a grateful feast.”
“Recognizes ever and anonThe breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.”
“Lost in a gloom of uninspired research.”