 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
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 414 pages
...feeling. A poet he was born, and a poet he will die. Let him speak of himself in his early days : " I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract...rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite : a feeling, and a love." Tintern Abbey. Let him... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1842 - 412 pages
...boyish days 13* To me was all in all.—I cannot paint And their glad animal movements, all gone by) What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me...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... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 620 pages
...in the mind of the young enthusiast desert him in maturer years. "The sounding cataract Haunted him, like a passion ; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood. Their colors and their forms, were then to him An appetite ; a feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter charm, By... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 426 pages
...him speak of himself in his early days : " I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract X Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite : a feeling, and a love." Tintern Abbey. Let him... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1843 - 278 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - Art - 1843 - 612 pages
...something that he dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then (The coarser pleasure of my boyish days And their glad animal movements...gone by) To me was all in all. I cannot paint What I then was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep... | |
 | 1843 - 602 pages
...something [hat he dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then (The coarser pleasure of my boyish days And their glad animal movements...gone by) To me was all in all. I cannot paint What I then was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep... | |
 | English literature - 1843 - 592 pages
...things ; he could realize beauty in all the works of creation. " the sounding cataract Haunted him like a passion ; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms were then to him An appetite, a feeling, and a love, That had no need of a... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 612 pages
...days And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all. I cannot paint What I then was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, anil the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their forms were then to me An appetite ; a feeling... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...: more like a man Flying from something that he dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For y colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter... | |
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