...wished much to possess it, ever since we read the surprise expressed by the great master of living song, that " excepting a passage or two in the Windsor Forest...not contain a single new image of external nature." * In vain, however, did we inquire in the bookshops for the volume of this charming and most original...

...write in verse, Thomson pledged himself to treat his subject as became a Poet. Now it is remarkable that, excepting a passage or two in the Windsor Forest...not contain a single new image of external nature ; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which it can be inferred that the eye of the Poet had been...

...write in verse, Thomson pledged himself to treat his subject as became a Poet. Now it is remarkable that, excepting a passage or two in the Windsor Forest...not contain a single new image of external nature ; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which it can be inferred that the eye of the Poet had been...

...wings of fancy in the Midsummer-Night's Dream and the Tempest. " It is remarkable," says Wordsworth, " that excepting a passage or two in the Windsor Forest...not contain a single new image of external nature, and scarcely presents a familiar one, from which it can be inferred that the eye of the Poet had been...

...himself to treat his subject as became a Poet. Now it is remarkable that, excepting a passage or two hj the Windsor Forest of Pope, and some delightful pictures...not contain a single new image of external nature ; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which it can be inferred that the eye of the Poet had been...

...under new and interesting appearances. There is some merit in all this, .for Wordsworth asserts, " that, excepting a passage or two in the Windsor Forest...publication of the Paradise Lost, and the Seasons [60 years], does not contain a single new image of external nature." But CLARE has no idea of excelling...

...remain unpublished. " It is remarkable that, excepting a passage or two in the Windsor Forest of Po^e, and some delightful pictures in the Poems of Lady...not contain a single new image of external nature." — WORDSWORTH (Essay in hit Miscellaneous Poems). The Atheist and the Acorn. METHINKS the world is...

...excepting the nocturnal Reverie of Lady Winchelsea, and a passage or two in the Windsor Forest of Pope, the Poetry of the period intervening between the publication...not contain a single new image of external nature; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which it can be inferred that the eye of the Poet had been...

...(CONTINUED.) • WE now come to one of the numerous loves we possess among our grandmothers of old,—or rather not numerous, but select, and such as keep...Seasons' does not contain a single new image of external nature."—Essay in his Miscellaneous Poems. Some of these " delightful pictures" are furnished us...

...in the " Windsor Forest " of Pope, the poetry of the period intervening between the publication of " d counted the tomb?. The last time we passed there, racthought he wistfully on tho tree ; ' The ' Nocturnal Reverie ' was written by ANNE, COUNTESS OF WINCHELSEA, the daughter of Sir William...