 For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.  The American Whig Review - Page 711851Full view - About this book
 | Jane Margaret Hooper - 1854 - 308 pages
...come to the castle. VOL. I. CHAPTER VI. A MORNING VISIT AND A WOMAN'S MISSION. " Not for this Taint I, nor mourn, nor murmur — other gifts Have followed,...such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense." WORDSWORTH. " THERE is a property of good in all things evil," said Miss Hastings to her sister-in-law... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English essays - 1854 - 350 pages
...from the eye. That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn, nor murmur ; other gifts Have follow'd, for such loss I would believe Abundant recompense. For I have learn'd To look on nature,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1855 - 704 pages
...eye. — That time is past, . And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur ; other...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanitj', Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 590 pages
...the following sublime description of a mind dependent on nature for its inspiration and its power, " For I have learned To look on nature, not ta in the...humanity ; Nor harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and snbduc. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts... | |
 | Horace Binney Wallace - American literature - 1856 - 468 pages
...regret, and the ingenuity of hopefulness with which he finds a compensation for 'what age takes nway.' Not for this Faint I, nor mourn, nor murmur; other...for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense : and he goes on to recount the graver instruction which the landscape gives since he can hear The... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1316 pages
...the eyes —That time is part, And all its aching joys arc now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur ; other...gifts Have followed ; for such loss, I would believe, Abnndnnt recompense. For I hare learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thonglitles a youth... | |
 | Horace Binney Wallace - American literature - 1856 - 478 pages
...ingenuity of hopefulness with which he finds a compensation for 'what age takes away.' Not for thia Faint I, nor mourn, nor murmur; other gifts Have followed,...for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense : and he goes on to recount the graver instruction which the landscape gives since he can hear The... | |
 | Religion - 1857 - 830 pages
...was so peculiarly touching in the poem on Tintern Abbey, and more particularly in the lines : — ' For I have learned To look on Nature not as in the...humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To ehasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1857 - 672 pages
...Wordsworth: That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn, nor murmur ; other...for such loss, I would believe Abundant recompense. THE EUSSIANS ON THE AMTJE. BY EG EATENSTEIN, CORBESP. FG3. FRANKPORT. THE progress of Russia seems... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1857 - 480 pages
...the eye.— That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur ; other...followed ; for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompence. For I have learned ' To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing... | |
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