Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson by Alfred Lord Tennyson;William Wordsworth
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in its selfish violence. Everything depends upon its being held in due
subordination to those higher elements in our nature which go to make wisdom. Would that the ideal aim of our education were to produce such as he was, in whom every increase in intellectual ability was accompanied by the growth of some finer grace of the spirit."--_Arthur W. Robinson_. 4. HER PILLARS. "Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars."--_Proverbs_ 9: 1. 5. A FIRE. The fire of inspiration. 6. SETS. Hard, like a flint. 6. FORWARD. Bold, without reverence. 7. CHANCE. Of success. 8. TO DESIRE. Governed by passion, without restraint or self-control. 10. FEAR OF DEATH. Knowledge does not know what is beyond the grave and therefore fears death. 11. CUT FROM LOVE, ETC. Wallace says: "Knowledge, in its own nature, can have no love, for love is not of the intellect, and knowledge is all of the intellect: so, too, she can have no faith, for faith in its nature is a confession of ignorance, since she believes what she cannot know." 12. PALLAS. Pallas Athene, the goddess of wisdom among the Greeks, was fabled to have sprung, fully grown and fully armed, from the brain of Zeus. Wild Pallas means "false wisdom." |
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