 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
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, Have hung upon the beatings of my heart. luj. 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,... | |
 | John T. Watson - Quotations - 1869 - 524 pages
...those, without our schools, suffice To make men moral, good and wise. GRAY'S Elegy. GAY'S GAY'S Fatilti. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion ;...were then to me an appetite, a feeling, and a love. WORDSWORTH. 422 NECESSITY -NEGLECT -SLIGHT. • Lovely indeed the mimic works of art, But Nature's... | |
 | Learned institutions and societies - 1869 - 280 pages
...early youth : — " Nature then To me was all in all. I cannot paint What then I was. The Bounding cataract Haunted me like a passion ; the tall rock,...forms were then to me An appetite, a feeling, and a lore That had no need of a remoter charm By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye."... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1870 - 244 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 :...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 Martin - Adventure and adventurers - 1870 - 360 pages
...worthy of being taken into account and resorted to." He says: — " The sounding cataract Haunted one like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and...feeling, and a love That had no need of a remoter charm." Wordsworth, during the first three years which followed his return home in 1792, seems to have had... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English poetry - 1870 - 466 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... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...universe. Nature inhabits him, and he inhabits nature, with a reciprocity of life-giving influence. " The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion :...then to me An appetite, a feeling, and a love. That nad no need of a remoter charm." Byron and Burns seem beings apart from Nature ; to their enjoyment... | |
 | 1870 - 462 pages
...sounding 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...thought supplied, or any 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1871 - 622 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 me Ati appetite : a feeling and a Jove, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 pages
...pleasures of my hoyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone hy) To me was all in all. — 1 cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract...had no need of a remoter charm. By thought supplied, nor any interest Unhorrowed from the eye.— That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no... | |
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