 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
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...through the woods — How often has my spirit turn'd to thee ! And now, with gleams of half-extinguish'd thought, With many recognitions dim and faint, And...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... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1864 - 358 pages
...then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days And their glad animal movements, all gone by) To me waii all in all — I cannot paint What then I was. The...forms, were then to me An appetite : a feeling and a htVe, That had no need of a remoter charm By thought supplied, or any interest Unnorrow'd from the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1865 - 318 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...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 Wordsworth - English poetry - 1865 - 316 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...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... | |
 | Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 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 Unborrowed from the eye. That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, Have hung upon the beatings of my heart. Ibid. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion :...and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm By thoughts supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye. ibid. But hearing oftentimes The still,... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, 80 Their colours and their forms, were then to me An...interest Unborrowed from the eye. — That time is past, 85 And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...the thing he loved. For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad auimal movements all gone by) To me was all in all. — I...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 nil its... | |
 | Afternoon lectures - 1869 - 378 pages
...the charge before us. Referring to the days of his early youth, he says : — ' ' For Nature then . . To me was all in all. I cannot paint What then I was....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,... | |
 | Art - 1869 - 384 pages
...the charge before us. Referring to the days of his early youth, he says : — " For Nature then . . . To me was all in all. I cannot paint What then I was....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,... | |
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