 To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never...  Spirit of the English Magazines - Page 3341819Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1822 - 498 pages
...flashing pang ! of which the weary breast Would still, albeit in vain, the heavy heart divest. XXV. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace...things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er, or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that... | |
 | A. Yosy - 1823 - 574 pages
...ripple of the wave that washed her steps—No: God waS present with her wherever she went. " To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace...things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er, or rarely, been : To climb the trackless mountain, all unseen, With the wild flock,... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 400 pages
...a celebrated French writer justly observes, to him is a prison, and solitude a paradise. To sit ou rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace...things, that own not man's dominion, dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock, that... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 468 pages
...justly observes, to him is a prison, and solitude a paradise. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood anil fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where...things, that own not man's dominion, dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock, that... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Alfred Howard - 1824 - 226 pages
...finding no place for their landing better, They ran the boat for shore, and overset her. SOLITUDE. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace...things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that... | |
 | George Burges - 1824 - 150 pages
...up to its sublimity, and convert my soul into its loneliness and loveliness, and feel that, " To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scenes, \Vhere things that own' not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er, or rarely been,"... | |
 | Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - French literature - 1824 - 196 pages
...patrie, s'il l'eût employé à faire son bonhtur : — " To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and Ml. " To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, " Where things that own not man's dominioo dwell, " And mortal foct hath ne'er or rarely been ; " To climb the trackless mountain ail... | |
 | Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint Pierre - 1824 - 430 pages
...le génie eût fait honneur à sa patrie, s'il l'eût employé à faire son bonheur : — " To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, " To slowly trace the forest'3 shady scene, " Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, " And mortal foot hath ne'er... | |
 | John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...their winding sheet, And every turf beneath their feet, Shall be a Soldier's cemetry. SOLITUDE. TO sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, \Vhercthings thatown not man's dominions dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been, To climb... | |
 | English essays - 1825 - 724 pages
...animated perception of Nature's loveliness so sweetly expatiated on by the bard of Childe Harold: " To lit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's sliady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely... | |
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