 The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor...  Cyclopædia of English literature - Page 327by Robert Chambers - 1844Full view - About this book
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...pleasure sweetens pain. A fine poet thus describee the effect of the sight of nature on his mind : " The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion :...appetite, a feeling, and a love, That had no need oía remoter charm By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrow'd from the eye." So the forms of nature,... | |
 | a and w galignani - 1825 - 306 pages
...pleasure sweetens pain. A fine poet thus describes the effect of the sight of nature on his mind : " The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion :...remoter charm By thought supplied, or any interest tlnhorroired from the eye." So the forms of nature, or the human form divine, stood before the great... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Aesthetics - 1826 - 482 pages
...pleasure sweetens pain. A fine poet thus describes the effect of the sight of nature on his mind : " The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the...supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye." So the forms of nature, or the human form divine, stood before the great artists of old, nor required... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Rationalism - 1826 - 486 pages
...of nature on his mind : • " The sound ing cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall ruck, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours...supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye." So the forms of nature, or the human form divine, stood before the great artists of old, nor required... | |
 | 1826 - 570 pages
...a passion: the tall rock, I i ' " The sounding cataract The mountain, and the deep and gloomy w6od, Their colours and their forms were then to me An appetite,...supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye. So the forms of nature, or the human form divine, stood before the great artists of old, nor required... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 416 pages
...sentiment, and almost of action ; or, as it will be found expressed, of a state of mind when — " the sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion :...supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye." — * These Poems are now printed entire. I will own that I was much at a loss what to select of these... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1832 - 402 pages
...thought, sentiment, and almost of action ; or as it will be found expressed, of a state of mind when " the sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion :...remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowcd from the eye." — I will own that I was much at a loss what to select of these descriptions... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 594 pages
...philosophy. Having revelled to his first visit to the Wye, which was in his early youth, he proceeds :— ' Nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days,...forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and alove, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the... | |
 | English literature - 1834 - 864 pages
...boyish days, And their glad animal movements, all gone by) To me was all in all. I cannot paint \Vhat then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like...supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye. That tune is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint... | |
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