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My voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species,) to the External world Is fitted:—and how exquisitely too— Theme this but little heard of among men— The External world is fitted to the Mind; And the Creation, (by no lower name Can it be called,) which they with blended might Accomplish—this is our high argument.
My voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species,) to the External world Is fitted:—and how exquisitely too— Theme this but little heard of among men— The External world is fitted to the Mind; And the Creation, (by no lower name Can it be called,) which they with blended might Accomplish—this is our high argument.
Approximate author period: c. 1810 AD · industrial
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- William Wordsworth
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- Approximate author period: c. 1810 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 388 · printed citation: Wordsworth · subject: MIND
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