 | John Wilson - English essays - 1842 - 428 pages
...still!'' And what heart partakes not the awe of his " Beneath that branching roof Self-poised, and scoop'd into ten thousand cells Where light and shade repose, where music dwells Lingering—and wandering on as loth to die ? " Read the first of these sonnets with the last—and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof Self-poised, and scooped loath to die ; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were bom for immortality.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof Self-poised, and scooped d headlong from the mountain's height, Deep in the...tide he plunged to endless night. Elegy Written i loath to die ; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were bom for immortality.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof Self-poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells, Where light and shade repose,...as loth to die ; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality. WHAT awful perspective ! while from our sight With... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof Self-poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells, Where light and shade repose,...as loth to die ; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof WHAT awful perspective ! while from our sight With gradual stealth the lateral windows... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof Self-poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells, Where light and shade repose,...where music dwells Lingering — and wandering on as loath to die ; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality.... | |
 | Dorothy Wordsworth Quillinan - Portugal - 1846 - 544 pages
...hut here the pillars " lead the will " heavenwards ; and how fine is the " branching roof/' scooped " Into ten thousand cells Where light and shade repose,...as loth to die, Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality ;" And where " the stone-work glimmers dyed In the... | |
 | Dorothy Wordsworth Quillinan - Portugal - 1847 - 516 pages
...heavenwards ; and how fine is the " branching roof," scooped " Into ten thousand cells Where h'ght and shade repose, where music dwells," . " Lingering...as loth to die, Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality ;" And where " the stone-work glimmers dyed In the... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 812 pages
...branching roof Sdf-poised and .-cooped into ten thousand cells, Where light and shade repose, «here music dwells Lingering— and wandering on as loth to die ; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality." But before we return to the quadrangle we must... | |
 | John Clarke (architect.) - 1851 - 174 pages
...who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof Self poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells, Where light and shade repose,...as loth to die; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were horn for immortality. — Wordsworth, THE CHOIR. PANELLING. — GROINED... | |
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Scholars only — this immense And glorious Work of fine intelligence! Give all thou canst ; high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely-calculated less or more ; So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof... 
