...truer saying than that of the poet : — " It is the soul that eees ; the outward eyes Present tUe object, but the mind descries ; And thence delight, disgust, or cool indifference rise." The true idea, then, generally, is to combine intellectual with manual pursuits. That such a course will...

...gone ; Till by the dreary void, 'tis known How hearts can ache when left alone! POEMS OF SENTIMENT. " It is the Soul that sees; the outward eyes " Present...Mind descries; " And thence Delight, Disgust, or cool Indiff'rence rise." CRABBE. FORM WITHOUT FEELING. Her eye in liquid lustre roll'd, Her brow was of...

...awakened by discovering in the hard rock this only evidence of a gigantic animal ! A true poet has said, " It is the soul that sees : the outward eyes Present...mind descries; And thence delight, disgust, or cool indiff'rence rise." We may live among the grandest scenes of Nature, or may visit the noblest monuments...

...ancient art, "or national interest, will find him insensible to their value and importance. " "Tis the soul that sees ; the outward eyes Present the...thence delight, disgust, or cool indifference rise." In the very sands and cliffs, science offers a picture stranger than romance, and only dimly to be...

...does not help us at all towards knowledge, if we cannot see it there. As the poet says, It is the mind that sees: the outward eyes Present the object, but the mind descries. And this is true of the sight which produces knowledge, as well as of the sight which produces pleasure...

...wetted a line from one year's end to another. THE HAPPIEST MAN IN ENGLAND. A SKETCH ON THE ROAD. " It is the Soul that sees; the outward eyes Present...but the Mind descries, And thence delight, disgust, nnd cool indifference rise." CRAHBE. " A CHARMING morning, sir," remarked my only fellowpa^senger in...

...shall demonstrate that it is a good land, fit for sustenance of man and beast. He will know that " It is the soul that sees : the outward eyes Present the object, but the mind descries;" and therefore he will reverence men like Maury, whose studies and calculations proclaim the wisdom of the...

...wetted a line from one year's end to another. THE HAPPIEST MAN IN ENGLAND. A SKETCH ON THE EOAD. " It is the Soul that sees ; the outward eyes Present the object; but the Mind descries, And thence del.igbt, disgust, and cool indifference rise." CRABBE. "A CHARMING' morning, sir," remarked my only...

...gathered from the glory of the past, invisible to the uninformed eye. In Yarrow, as in everywhere else — "It is the Soul that sees; the outward eyes Present the object; but the Mind descries." And yet this is but a general truth, applicable to every locality having a poetical or historical interest...

...case is simple. Sight, however, is much more complicated. In reality, Crabbe's lines, It is the mind that sees : the outward eyes Present the object, but the mind descries : are happier philosophically than perhaps he meant: so far as we speak, with any reason, of an object...