 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pages
...any thing to shew more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in it's majesty : This City now doth like a garment wear The...Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...droop again . 183 COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, Sept. 3, 1803. EARTH has not any thing to shew more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass...Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw 1, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...perusing it. " Earth has not any thing to shew more fair : Dull would he be of soul that could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This city now...Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 362 pages
...droop again. VIII. cOMPOsED UFON WEsTMINsTER BRIDGE, sIFT. 3. 1s03. EARTH has not any thing to shew more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass...Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1824 - 478 pages
...communicated to this picture, as to the preceding sketches of rural Scenery. Earth has not anything to shew more fair ; Dull would he be of soul who could pass...Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...touching in its majesty: This city now doth like a garment wear [bare, The beauty of the morning; silent. Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open...Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glitt'ring in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully...calm so deep ! The river glideth at his own sweet will : To me the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still ! Wordsworth. ON... | |
 | Theology - 1836 - 532 pages
...in many instances at least, are an integral pan of those thoughts. We will give a specimen or two. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1803. Earth...Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock, or bill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his... | |
 | English essays - 1835 - 742 pages
...Jt'estmiaster Bridge. Earth has not anything to shew more fair : Dull would he be the soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty ; This city now...never felt, a calm so deep ; The river glideth at his owu sweet will ; Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep, A in I all that mighty heart is lying still.... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1835 - 746 pages
...silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lieOpen unto the fields and to the sky ; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never...The river glideth at his own sweet will ; Dear God T the very houses seem asleep, And all that mighty heart is lying still. The reader feels, as this... | |
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Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie... 
