 For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all. — I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep...  The American Whig Review - Page 711851Full view - About this book
 | Periodicals - 1825 - 500 pages
...canvas, and so brings out in all their truth, and purity, and gentleness, his beautiful conceptions. " I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract...and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their forms, were then to me An appetite : a feeling and a love. That had no need of a remoter charm, By... | |
 | a and w galignani - 1825 - 306 pages
...pleasure sweetens pain. A fine poet thus describes the effect of the sight of nature on his mind : " The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion :...The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms were then to me An appetite, a feeling, and a love, That had no need of a remoter... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1826 - 550 pages
...place of agony and strife, Where, for some sin, to Sorrow I was cast, To act and suffer. LORD BYRON. I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract...The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite : a feeling and a love, That had no need of a... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Aesthetics - 1826 - 482 pages
...pleasure sweetens pain. A fine poet thus describes the effect of the sight of nature on his mind : " The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the...The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms were then to me An appetite, a feeling, and a love, That had no need of a remoter... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...: more like a man Flying from something that he dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days,...The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite : a feeling and a love, That had no need of a... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...: more like a man Flying from something that he dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days,...animal movements all gone by,) To me was all in all 1 cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 416 pages
...sentiment, and almost of action ; or, as it will be found expressed, of a state of mind when — " the sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion :...The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms were then to me An appetite, a feeling, and a love, That had no need of a remoter... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish da_i « And tlicir ong corse that shivers there Of him who cume to die ! ON A TEAR. OH! rtx-k The mountain, and the deep and gloom T wood, Their colours and their forms, were thru to Hutu... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyUh days, And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all. — 1 cannot paint What then I was. The *ounuiug cataract Haunted me like a passion: the t.ill rock.... | |
 | Robert Smith - Society of Friends - 1829 - 432 pages
...from something that he dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then (The courser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal...cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, T/ie mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite;... | |
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