 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
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 pages
...he loved. For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movement» 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 Unborrowed from the eye. — That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1851 - 394 pages
...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 Unhorrow'd from the eye." So the forms of nature, or the human form divine, stood before the great... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 500 pages
...often sent onr thoughts to a passage of Wordsworth, describing his youthful self: " For nature then To me was all in all. I cannot paint What then I was....then to me , An appetite ; a feeling and a love." H. 1 On and one were anciently pronounced alike, and frequently written so. VOL. I. 12 Vol. Why, sir,... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 354 pages
...pleasure! of my hoyish days And their glad animal movement!, all gone by) To me wat all In all — 1 cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract...remoter charm By thought supplied, or any interest Tlnborrow'd iVooi the eye. That time Is put, And .>ll its ochlng joys are now no more, And all its... | |
 | American literature - 1853 - 442 pages
...good For future years. And so I dare to hope, Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first I came among these hills : when, like a roe, I bounded...remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unhonourcd from the eye. That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - Literature - 1853 - 412 pages
...good For future years. And so I dare to hope, Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first I came among these hills : when, like a roe, I bounded...remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unhonoured from the eye. That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...food For future years. And so I dare to hope, Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first I came among these hills ; when like a roe I bounded...had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrow'd from the eye. — That time is past, Aud all its ai-hing joys are now no... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1853 - 300 pages
...For future years. And so I dare to hope. f. Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first I came among these hills ; when like a roe I bounded...wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to ma An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 776 pages
...beatings of my heart, How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee, 0 sylvan Wye ! Thou wanderer thro' the woods, How often has my spirit turned to thee...interest Unborrowed from the eye. — That time is past, 17 And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English essays - 1854 - 192 pages
...created — he gives the following view of the progress of his sympathy with the external world : — -" Nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days...remoter charm By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrow'd from the eye. That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy... | |
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