...which led him to prostrate his fine judgment later before the miracles shown him by Italian priests. " The intellectual power through words and things Went sounding on a dim and perilous way." But the perils of the way became daily more apparent to great numbers of perplexed churchmen, who doubted...

...put To inquisition long and profitless ! By pain of heart — now checked — and now impelled — The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way ! And here, to quote one more passage that reconciles all tastes, are the sombre imaginings suggested to...

...working in the days before the fall of the Bastille — Life was put To inquisition long and profitless ; The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way. And yet it was not profitless. Without it, Wordsworth himself might never have struck, as he did, the key-note...

...Columbus alone in the world's history shows a rival type of sustained, deliberate, solitary courage. " The intellectual power, through words and things Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way ! " The problem which Des Cartes set before him was to explain the evolution of the universe by assuming...

...was put To inquisition long and profitless. By pain of heart — now checked — and now impelled — The intellectual power, through words and things Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way.1 Such speculations had one of their sickliest forms in the German dramas of the close of the eighteenth...