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" Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie : His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. "
The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ... - Page 126
1851
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The Earlier Poems of William Wordsworth: Corrected as in the Latest Editions ...

William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 pages
...long compelled in humble walks to go. — Edit. 1815. 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...
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National Review, Volume 4

1857 - 496 pages
...amongst the mountains than it can be among men, — " 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." But these radiated influences are never human till they touch the human soul, and are transmuted by...
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Autumnal Leaves: Tales and Sketches in Prose and Rhyme

Lydia Maria Child - 1857 - 390 pages
...asleep to the gentle lullaby of ever-flowing water. Other education 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." I THE EMIGRANT BOY. 88 An aged neighbour, cotemporary with the grandmother, took a great liking to...
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The State of Wisconsin Blue Book

1989 - 1010 pages
...its place, creating a scene of moonlight stillness, which was suited to fix a living impression of "The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills."23 19. Kinnickinnic State Park (Wis.), County Trunk F Unusual among Wisconsin parks, Kinnickinnic...
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Literature and Life

Edwin Percy Whipple - 1899 - 356 pages
...his spiritual biography and the growth of his mind. Love he had 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. But who is He with modest looks, And clad in homely russet brown ? He murmurs near the running brooks...
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Nineteenth Century and After, Volume 2

1877 - 926 pages
...sky and the mountain stillness after reading for the first time these two well-known lines ? — ' The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.' The charm of the next illustration is more accurately characterised when it is asked who has ' so called...
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Personal Forces in Modern Literature

Arthur Compton-Rickett - 1906 - 250 pages
...supplements in the most admirable way that of Wordsworth, and that after seeking with the Lake poet " The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is in the lonely hills," and realising with him that it is good for one's soul to leave nature - worship...
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Notes and Queries

1879 - 718 pages
...freedom bespeak one accustomed to handle the pen. ' Love had he found in huts where poor men live, His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence...starry sky. The sleep that is among the lonely hills.' But he had other teachers, men of flesh and blood, as we are. Is it likely he was never in hiding in...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 29

George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 818 pages
...recurs to me. The teachers of the peasant noble, according to Wordsworth, had been, amongst others, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. The phrase exemplifies that mysterious charm with which a poet can invest the expression of the apparently...
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Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life ..., Part 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1984 - 860 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...the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.1 The words themselves in the foregoing extracts, are, no doubt, sufficiently common for the...
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