 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1847 - 380 pages
...are at once an instance and an illustration, he does indeed to all thoughts and to all objects — add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream."49 I shall select a few examples as most obviously manifesting this faculty ; but if I should... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1847 - 462 pages
...at once an instance and an illustration, he does indeed to all thoughts and to all objects — " • add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream."49 abound in happy expressions and images. What truth of nature poetically exhibited is there... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1848 - 576 pages
...demanded whereby we pronounce judgment, we should say with Wordsworth, there must be the power to ' add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream.' " But to this power of idealizing must be conjoined, as Henry Taylor says, " the great philosophy,"... | |
 | DOUGLAS JERROLD - 1848 - 578 pages
...is demanded whereby we pronounce judgment, we should say with Wordsworth, there must be the power to 'add the gleam, , The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream.'" But to this power of idealizing must be conjoined, as Henry Taylor says, " the great philosophy," without... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1848 - 578 pages
...is demanded whereby we pronounce judgment, we should say with Wordsworth, there must be the power to 'add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream.' " But to this power of idealizing must be conjoined, as Henry Taylor fays, " the great philosophy,"... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Dramatists, English - 1848 - 364 pages
...wretched daubs, becomes almost divine; and the genius of poesy, hovering round his movements, " Adds the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream." That happy hour was the obscure birth of his immortality. Without any throes of labour, or flutterings... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - Poetry, Modern - 1849 - 414 pages
...: I could have fancied that the mighty Deep Was even the gentlest of all gentle Things. All ! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what...tranquil land, beneath a sky of bliss. Thou shouldst have seemed a treasure-house divim Of peaceful years ; a chronicle of heaven ; — Of all the sunbeams that... | |
 | 1849 - 484 pages
...tender and beautiful, giving evidence of a mind which to all lovely objects in the material world can "—Add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream." No one con read the present volume without being Btruck with the vigor and variety of the author's... | |
 | 318 pages
...are at once an instance and an illustration, he does indeed to all thoughts and to all objects — "Add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream." William Wordsworth was born at Cockermouth, in Cumberland, and died at his house at Rydal Mount, among... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 500 pages
...were difficult indeed to name any thing else of human workmanship so thoroughly transfigured with " the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream : " the celestial and the earthly being so commingled, — commingled, but not confounded, — that... | |
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Ah! then, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw; and add the gleam The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the Poet's dream; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile! 
