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" 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 327
by Robert Chambers - 1844
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Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of T. Noon Talfourd

Thomas Noon Talfourd - English essays - 1854 - 350 pages
...sympathy with the external world : — -" Nature then (The coarser pleasures of ray boyish days And llieir glad animal movements, all gone by) To me was all...remoter charm By thought supplied, or any interest TJnborrow'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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William Wordsworth: A Biography

Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 590 pages
...lengthy, and a few sentences therefore must suffice this picture of the boyhood of an enthusiast, " The sounding cataract, Haunted me like a passion :...had no need of a remoter charm By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowcd from the eye." So the following sublime description of a mind dependent...
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William Wordsworth: A Biography

Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 556 pages
...therefore must suffice this picture of the boyhood of an enthusiast. " The sounding cataract, Haunted mo like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and...had no need of a remoter charm By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye." " For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour...
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The Popular lecturer [afterw.] Pitman's Popular lecturer (and ..., Volumes 4-6

Henry Pitman - 1316 pages
...deservedly a favourite with all the lovers of Wordsworth, " Lines written above Tintern Abbey": — I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract...wood. Their colours and their forms, were then to m« An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm By thought supplied, nor...
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The Earlier Poems of William Wordsworth: Corrected as in the Latest Editions ...

William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1857 - 480 pages
...recognitions dim and faint, And somewhat of a sad perplexity, The picture of the mind revives again : Wliile here I stand, not only with the sense Of present pleasure,...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...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - Bookbinding - 1858 - 550 pages
...falsely pronounced to be impossible to be continuous, as Wordsworth proves himself, when he says : "The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion ;...were then to me An appetite, a feeling, and a love." But, in addition to this, Wordsworth's was a metaphysical as well as an imaginative mind, and the two...
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the poetical works of william wordsworth

WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pages
...falsely pronounced to be impossible to be continuous, as Wordsworth proves himself, when he says : " The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion ;...were then to me An appetite, a feeling, and a love." But, in addition to this, Wordsworth's was a metaphysical as well as an imaginative mind, and the two...
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A book of English poetry; ed. by T. Shorter

Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 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...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...
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A history of English literature, in a series of biographical sketches

William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...the sides Of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, Wherever nature led f more like a man Flyiug from something that he dreads, than one Who sought...feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter charm, Uy thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye. That time is past, And all its aching...
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Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain, Volume 1

William Howitt, Mary Botham Howitt - Abbeys - 1862 - 236 pages
...was all in all.—I cannot paint What then I was. The founding cataract Haunted me like a paflion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy...love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought fupplied, or any intereft Unborrowed from the eye.—That time is pair, And all its aching joys are...
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