| 1887 - 890 pages
...heart was haunted by the sounding cataract ; his soul received into herself, in still communion, " The silence that is in the starry sky. The sleep that is among the lonely bills." Nevertheless, although he was the poet of sensations rather than of pictures, Wordsworth comes... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...to go, Was softened into feeling, soothed, and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor men lie ; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. In him the savage virtue of the Race, Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead : Nor did he change... | |
| 1845 - 448 pages
...to go, Was softened into feeling, soothed and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor men lie ; His daily teachers had been woods and rills. The silence...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. In him the savage virtue of the race, Revenge and all ferocious thoughts, were dead; jS'or did he change,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 pages
...into feeling, soothed, and tamed. Love had he found in huta where poor men lie • Hi* daily teachere had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is amone the lonely hills.1* The words themselves in tho foregoing extract* are, no doubt, sufficiently... | |
| Timothy Flint - 1845 - 266 pages
...incurious nor incompetent observers, their delineations were graphic and vivid. "Their teachers had lieen woods and rills, The silence, that is in the starry sky; The sleep, that is among tht- lonely hilla." They advanced into Kentucky so far, as to fill their imaginations with the fresh... | |
| Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1845 - 422 pages
...was a hollow pretension on his part, (he, who could not abide Wordsworth,) to declare in favour of The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is between the lonely hills. The sleep in which he really delighted, was anything but lonely ; and, as... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...to go, Was softened into feeling, soothed, and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor men lie ; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. In him the savage virtue of the race, Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead : Nor did he change... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 376 pages
...to go, Was softened into feeling, soothed, and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor men lie ; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills." The words themselves in the foregoing extracts, are, no doubt, sufficiently common for the greater... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1847 - 358 pages
...asleep to the gentle lnllaby of ever-flowing water. Other edncation than this he had not. " His only teachers had been woods and rills ; The silence that...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills." An aged neighbonr, cotemporary with the grandmother, took a great liking to Fritz ; and on Snndays,... | |
| Mary E. Bennett - 1848 - 212 pages
...himself wisely and nobly, and like a good Englishman. Love had he found in huts where poor men lie ; Ilia daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence...the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hilU. In him the savage virtue of the race, Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead. Nor did... | |
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