...thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But...sanctifying by such discipline Both pain and fear, until we recognise A grandeur in the beatings of the heart. One word here, 'vulgar', has shifted in meaning...

...thus, from my first day Of childhood, did ye love to interweave The passions that build up our human soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with eternal things, With life and Nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying...

...worthy of myself! Praise to the end! (I,ll.344-350) This calm existence and spiritual sublime comes from Nature purifying thus The elements of feeling and...recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart. (I,ll.410-414) An interfusion of "terrors, pains, and early miseries" is sanctified through thought...

...thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things 410 With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought And sanctifying, by...

...at face-value his epic-machinery) chose from the first ("to interweave [his] passions") with eternal things, With life and Nature, purifying thus the elements...recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart. ( Was It For This, 53-8) The interweaving of emotion with "life and Nature" - both, it appears, classed...

...build up our human soul Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with eternal things, With life and Nature, purifying thus The elements...recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart. (N p.4 11.130-141) In these lines nature and consciousness are linked, the individual before the fall...

...thus from my first dawn Of Childhood d1dst Thou inrertwine for me The passions that build up our human Soul; Not with the mean and vulgar works of Man, But with high objects, with enduting things, With life and nature, putifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying,...

...first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul, Nor with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high...recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart. Nor was this fellowship vouchsaf 'd to me With stinted kindness. In November days When vapors rolling down...

...thus from my first dawn Of Childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human Soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But...recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart. (1.401-14; 1850) 10. As John Mahoney writes more generally about the "spots of time" in The Prelude:...

...thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul; Not with the mean and vulgar works of Man; But...thought, And sanctifying by such discipline Both pain and fear,-until we recognise A grandeur in the beatings of the heart. William Wordsworth Like one of his...