 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 Francis Collier - American literature - 1871 - 564 pages
...coarser pleasures of my boyish days And their glad animal movements all gone by — To me was alfin all — I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding...feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter charm, 3y thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye. That time is past, Jf nd all its aching... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Superexlibris - 1871 - 630 pages
...To me was all in,* all. — I cannot paint What then I was. J. The sounding cataract Haunted me like ¿passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep...had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborn) wed from the eye. — That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no... | |
 | Poems - 1872 - 362 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... | |
 | Literature - 1872 - 848 pages
...above Tintern Abbey, wherein he tries to recall the feelings of his early youth : — " Nature then To me was all in all. I cannot paint What then I was....remoter charm By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowcd from the eye." have been to this young man exactly what the word <J>ixri9 indicates. He... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pages
...thought, sentiment, and almost of action ; or, as it will be found expressed, of a state of mind when " the sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion :...supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye." I will own that I was much at a loss what to select of these descriptions : and perhaps it would have... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...Thong-h changed, no doubt, from what I was ^vhen first I earoe among these hills ; when, like a roe, Orchart ja feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrow'd... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1873 - 440 pages
...nature was less strong and genuine than that of Byron ; have we it not given under his own hand ? " The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion ;...remoter charm By thought supplied, or any interest Unhorrowed from the eye." This youthful delight in the pure external aspect of nature, however, was... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1874 - 96 pages
...nature then — The coarser pleasures of my boyish days And their glad animal moments all gone by — 75 To me was all in all — I cannot paint What then...wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me 80 An appetite ; a feeling and 'a love That had no need of a remoter charm By thought supplied, or... | |
 | T. LINDSEY ASPLAND - 1874 - 492 pages
...paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion ; the tall rock, The mountains, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their...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... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 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 :...forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a lovej That had no need of a remoter charm By thoughts supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the... | |
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