...never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thon hoary pile ! Amid a world how different from this...to smile ; On tranquil land, beneath a sky of bliss : Thon shouldst have seemed a treasure-house, a mine Of peaceful years ; a chronicle of Heaven : —...

...away, or brings: I could have fancied that the mighty Deep Was even the gentlest of all gentle things. Ah ! then if mine had been the painter's hand To express...and add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The con secretion, and the poet's dream, — I would have planted thee, thou hoary pile, Amid...

...away or brings : I could have fancied that the mighty Deep Was even the gentlest of all gentle things. Ah ! then if mine had been the painter's hand To express what then I saw, and add the gleain, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream, — I would...

...and enchanting regions, — regions which, to all that is lovely in the forms and colors of earth, "Add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream." roam to the most remote regions of the earth, or soar into realms where Spencer's shapes of unearthly...

...are at once an instance and an illustration, he does indeed, to all thoughts and to all objects — ; other gifts Have followed, for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense. For I have The fame of Wordsworth was daily extending, as we have said, before his death. The few ridiculous or...

...on the sea beyond. The sacred emblem of our order dees, indeed, to all thoughts and all objects — "Add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream." With the organization of the Crusades there sprang up a living principle that can never die — in...

...critics are beginning to see, art consists not in imitating but in idealising Nature. The artist must " Add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream." Music, for instance, may be a form of emotional or passionate language, but it is not the mere imitation...

...day is not far distant when the painters of Italy may seek in vain for inspiration and never find " the gleam. The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream." It would be impossible to describe in these pages, even did our subject and space permit it, the varied...

...which 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."* DOROTHT WORDSWORTH. Wordsworth's only sister, Dorothy, whose life was so helpful in every sense to...

...at once (as I hope to show) interpreted them, as they had never been interpreted before, and added The gleam, The light, that never was on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream. Most persons are aware that Wordsworth himself wrote a " Guide through the District of the Lakes in...