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" These beauteous forms, Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye : But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood,... "
The modern reader and speaker - Page 130
by David Charles Bell - 1856
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Harper's Cyclopædia of British and American Poetry

Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...where by his lire The hermit sits alone. These beauteous forms, Through a long absence, have not beeu he red field was won ; Then saw in death his unremeiiibered pleasure : sncli, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 pages
...WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. [From Lines Compracd a Few MiU-s Above Tinlera. Abbey.] THE SOLACE OF NATURE. Tuofoit absent long. These forms of beauty have not been to...trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's 666 667 His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. Nor less, I trust, To them...
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The Household Book of Poetry

Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1882 - 906 pages
...hermit's cave, where by his fire The hermit sits alone. These beauteous forms Through a long absence have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's...feelings too Of unremembered pleasure : such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless,...
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Five minutes daily readings of poetry, selected by H.L.S. Lear

Five minutes daily readings - 1882 - 408 pages
...and alone. T. HOOD. September 16. THE RIVER WYE. . . . THESE beauteous forms Thro' a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's...feelings too Of unremembered pleasure : such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless,...
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Poetic Configurations: Essays in Literary History and Criticism

Lowry Nelson - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 333 pages
...he tells us in the second paragraph, evoked feelings so deep they have become a saving part of him. But oft, in lonely rooms, and mid the din Of towns...And passing even into my purer mind With tranquil restoration:—feelings too Of unremembered pleasure; such, perhaps, As may have had no trivial influence...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7

American essays - 1861 - 792 pages
...me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye: But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns ami cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness,...even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration: — feelinyi, too, Of unrtniembered pleasure : such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence...
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Selected Poems

William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...Hermit's cave, where by his fire The Hermit sits alone. These beauteous forms, Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's...along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, 30 With tranquil restoration: - feelings too Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps, As have no slight...
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Keats the Poet

Stuart M. Sperry - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 376 pages
...well known to require extensive citation. One has only to recall "Tintern Abbey" and its apostrophe to sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along...restoration: — feelings too Of unremembered pleasure. . . . Like Keats, Wordsworth is beguilingly vague in his use of the word, as we can readily see if...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...Hermit's cave, where by his fire The Hermit sits alone. These beauteous forms. Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's...mind, With tranquil restoration: — feelings too ^i Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion...
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Napoleon and English Romanticism

Simon Bainbridge - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 292 pages
...Wordsworthlan questions, the ones behind The Prelude and 'Tintern Abbey', the idiom of which he is adopting: But oft, in lonely rooms, and mid the din Of towns...blood, and felt along the heart, And passing even into purer mind With tranquil restoration, (my italics, lines 26-31) and . . . but with pleasing thoughts...
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