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" For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with... "
The Golden Gift: A Token for All Seasons - Page 112
edited by - 1856 - 128 pages
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Stories of American Life, Volume 3

Mary Russell Mitford - Short stories, American - 1830 - 354 pages
...and sciences; — all this is "high matter," and may be discussed hereafter. UNWRITTEN POETRY. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour...humanity, Not harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts...
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Poetical Sketches of the South of France

Benjamin Bailey - English poetry - 1831 - 138 pages
...That waves in languor o'er far Indian seas. NOTES. I lave learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes...humanity, Not harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts...
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Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c., Delivered at the Royal ...

James Montgomery - Literature - 1833 - 348 pages
...recondite, and imaginations the most subtle. Thus : — " I have leam'd To look on Nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing, oftentimes, The still, sad music of humanity ; Not harsh and grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs...
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The British Magazine, Volume 3

1833 - 792 pages
...which, though its phraseology is of the rudest kind, has in it so much of native simplicity, so much of the " still sad music of humanity, not harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue,"^ that I hope to be excused for presenting it to my readers : — " How sadly...
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British Magazine, and Monthly Register of Religious and ..., Volume 3

Theology - 1833 - 806 pages
...which, though its phraseology is of the rudest kind, has in it so much of native simplicity, so much of the " still sad music of humanity, not harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue,":}; that I hope to be excused for presenting it to my readers : — " How sadly...
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The Last Evening of Catanie; with Other Poems

William Henry Spicer - Sicily (Italy) - 1834 - 196 pages
...splrti; Chi MI le pinme, e chi su i dim sassi, E clii su 1'erbe, e chi iu faggi or mirti. ARIOSTO. I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The stilt, aad music of humanity; Nor harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue."...
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The Biblical Repository and Quarterly Observer, Volume 7

Theology - 1836 - 532 pages
...head of Poems of the Imagination, is inexpressibly affecting. We can copy but a short paragraph. — I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue....
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The cynosure, select passages from the most distinguished writers [ed. by ...

Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...high disdain ; Against deceit and cloaked doubleness, What vaileth truth, or perfect steadfastness ? I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 44

Scotland - 1838 - 938 pages
...mourn nor murmur ; other gifts Have followed ; for such lose I would believe Abundant recompense. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour...still sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, but of amplest power To soften and subdue. " And I have felt A passion that disturbed me with the joy...
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The Moral and Intellectual School Book: Containing Instructions for Reading ...

William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...mourn nor murmur ; other gifts Have followed, for such loss, 1 would believe. Abundant recompense. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And...
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