 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...  The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Page 175by William Wordsworth - 1854 - 727 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ballads - 1805 - 284 pages
...food For future years. And so I dare to hopa Though changed, no doubt, from what I was, when first I came among these hills; when like a roe I bounded...feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charrn, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye. — That time is past, And all... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 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...feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, 76 By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye. — That time is past, And all its... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 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 :...remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Uiiborrowed from the eye" — I will own that I was much at a loss what to select of these descriptions... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...original, that the redder may judge if we are correct, especially as the poem is not very well known. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion :...feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter charm, &c. Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads, Vol. I. p. Iwi. CHIT. Rsv. VOL. IV. Nov. 1816. 3 T " Now, where the... | |
 | England - 1838 - 884 pages
...And their glad varied moments all gone by) To me was all in all. I cannot paint What then I was. Tho sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the...forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a lojjre That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any Interest I'nborrowed from... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 pages
...pleasure sweetens pain. A fine poet thus describee the effect of the sight of nature on his mind : " The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion :...appetite, a feeling, and a love, That had no need oía remoter charm By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrow'd from the eye." So the forms of nature,... | |
 | a and w galignani - 1825 - 306 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 :...remoter charm By thought supplied, or any interest tlnhorroired from the eye." So the forms of nature, or the human form divine, stood before the great... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1832 - 402 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 :...remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowcd from the eye." — I will own that I was much at a loss what to select of these descriptions... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 594 pages
...philosophy. Having revelled to his first visit to the Wye, which was in his early youth, he proceeds :— ' Nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days,...forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and alove, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the... | |
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