...Sister ! and this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her ; 't is her privilege, Through all the years of this our life,...feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Bash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all # This line...

...penetrate into the solitudes, where she works in her own quietness and freedom, is the voice of God. "Tis her privilege Through all the years of this our...joy, for she can so inform The mind that is within ns, so impress With quietness and beauty, nor sneer of selfish men Shall e'er prevail against us, or...

...Father, but as it stands, it is a magnificent compliment to Pantheism. Is it not so when he says — " This prayer I make, Knowing that nature never did...betray The heart that loved her ; 'tis her privilege, Thro' all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy : for she can so inform The mind that...

...the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come. The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs." And this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her ; 't is her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy :...

...wild eyes. Oh, yet a little while 120 May I behold in thee what I was once, My dear, dear sister. And this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did...privilege Through all the years of this our life to lead 125 From joy to joy, for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and...

...nature, which "never did betray / The heart that loved her." Even in self-reflexive maturity nature "can so inform / The mind that is within us, so impress...and beauty, and so feed / With lofty thoughts" that we are protected and sustained. Again the process leads from unconscious "informing" and "impressing"...

...for certain forms of romantic consciousness. Specifically, Sue's charge rescinds Wordsworth's claim that "Nature never did betray/ The heart that loved...years of this our life, to lead/ From joy to joy" ("Tintern Abbey," 122-24). This is the "plan" or promise that Sue claims "fate" has stabbed them in...

...his sister: Oh! yet a little while May I behold in thee what I was once, My dear, dear Sister! and this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did...the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy ... (119-25) A childhood favourite of Montgomery, Wordsworth is shown here to be woven into Emily's...

...wild eyes. Oh! yet a little while 120 May I behold in thee what I was once, My dear, dear Sister! and this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did...With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgements, nor the sneers of selfish men, 130 Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary...

...is cast." — Caesar, crossing the Rubicon River in his march on Rome. 2. "My dear, dear Sister! And this prayer I make / Knowing that Nature never did betray / The heart that loved her." — Wordsworth, Tintem Abbey. 3. Rimaud's letter of May 13, 1871: "]e est un autre. " ("I...