 | William Anderson - Heraldry - 1867 - 798 pages
...not know if I shonld call it pleasnre — bnt something which exalts me, something which enraptnres me — than to walk in the sheltered side of a wood or high plantation, in aclondy winter day, and hear the stormy wind howling among the trees, and raving over the plain. It... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...of a man. And again in a similar strain; There is scarcely any earthly object gives me more — I do not know if I should call it pleasure— but something which exalts me, something which euraptures me— than to walk in the sheltered side of a wood or high plantation in a clondy winter-day,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English literature - 1880 - 182 pages
...delicate, as well as powerful. Witness: ' There is scarcely any earthly object gives me more — I do not know if I should call it pleasure — but something...sheltered side of a wood, or high plantation, in a cloudy winter day, and hear the stormy wind howling among the trees and raving over the plain I listened to... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English poetry - 1880 - 404 pages
...know if I should call it pleasure—but something which exalts me, something which raptures me—than to walk in the sheltered side of a wood or high plantation in a cloudy winter day, and hear the stormy wind howling among the trees, and raving over the plain. It is my best... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1108 pages
...earthly object gives,me more — I do not know if I liuuld call it pleasure — hut something whieli exalts me, something which enraptures me — than to walk in the sheltered tide of a wood, or high plantation, in a cloudy winter day, and hear the stormy wind howling among... | |
 | Walt Whitman - American essays - 1882 - 412 pages
...(Robert Burns says in one of his letters: "There is scarcely any earthly object gives me more — I do not know if I should call it pleasure — but something...something which enraptures me — than to walk in the shelter'd side of a wood in a cloudy winter day, and hear the stormy wind howling among the trees,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1883 - 586 pages
...delicate, as well as powerful. Witness: 'There is scarcely any earthly object gives me more — I do not know if I should call it pleasure — but something which exalts me, something which euraptures me — than to walk in the sheltered side of a wood, or high plantation, in a cloudy winter... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1134 pages
...delicate, as well as powerful. Witness: 'There is scarcely any earthly object gives me more — I do cjoudy winter day, and hear the stormy wind howling among the trees and raving over the pluiu. ...... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1885 - 310 pages
...favourable to everything great and noble. There is scarcely any earthly object gives me more — I don't know if I should call it pleasure, but something which...sheltered side of a wood or high plantation in a cloudy winter day, and hear a stormy wind howling among the trees and raving o'er the plain. It is my best... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scottish poetry - 1886 - 490 pages
...favorable to every thing great & noble. — There is scarcely any earthly object gives me more — I don't know if I should call it pleasure, but something which...sheltered side of a wood or high plantation, in a cloudy, winter day, and hear a stormy wind howling among the trees & raving o'er the plain.* — It is my best... | |
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There is scarcely any earthly object gives me more — I do not know if I should call it pleasure — but something which exalts me, something which enraptures me — than to walk in the sheltered side of a wood, or high plantation, in a cloudy winter... 
