Edward H. Barringer

MODERN PAINTERS.

VOLUME II.

If, having walked with Nature,
And offered, far as frailty would allow,

My heart a daily sacrifice to Truth,

I now affirm of Nature and of Truth,

Whom I have served, that their Divinity
Revolts, offended at the ways of men,
Philosophers, who, though the human soul

Be of a thousand faculties composed,

And twice ten thousand interests, do yet prize
This soul, and the transcendent universe,
No more than as a mirror that reflects

To proud Self-love her own intelligence."

A NEW EDITION.

WORDSWORTH.

LONDON:

SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE.
1873.

[THE AUTHOR RESERVES THE RIGHT OF TRANSLATION.]