 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
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 414 pages
...feeling. A poet he was born, and a poet he will die. Let him speak of himself in his early days : " I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract...were then to me An appetite : a feeling, and a love." Tintern Abbey. Let him exhibit himself at a later period : " Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 426 pages
...him speak of himself in his early days : " I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract X Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain,...were then to me An appetite : a feeling, and a love." Tintern Abbey. Let him exhibit himself at a later period : " Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's... | |
 | 1844 - 1128 pages
...magnificent strain of music, in which he descants on his early predilections : — " For nature then To me was all in all. I cannot paint What then I was....and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm." It is generally supposed that the lyrics of Moore are (with the exception of one or two by Campbell,)... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...thing he loved. For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad varied moments all gone by) To me was all in all. I cannot paint...had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrow'd from the eye. That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...movements all gone by) To me was all in all. — I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataraet Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain,...had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye. — That time is part, And all its aching joys are now no... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...thing he loved. For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, Ami their glad varied moments all gone by) To me was all in all. I cannot paint...had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrow'd from the eye. That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - Criticism - 1847 - 570 pages
...language, had almost wholly disappeared, together with that worse defect of arbitrary and illogi13 [For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish...had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye. — That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 338 pages
...language, had almost wholly disappeared, together with that worse defect of arbitrary and illogi13 [For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish...wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me Ah appetite, a feeling, and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...our schools, suffice To make men moral, good and wise. GRAY'S Elegy. GAY'S Fables. GAY'S Fables. 11. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion ;...were then to me An appetite, a feeling, and a love. WORDSWORTH. 36 12. Lovely indeed the mimic works of art, But Nature's works far lovelier. COWPER'S... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1848 - 358 pages
...days And their glad animal movements, all gone by) To me was all in all — I cannot paint What then 1 was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion...were then to me An appetite : a feeling and a love. Thai had no need of a remoter charm By thought supplied, or any interest T:nborrow'd from the eye.... | |
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