 What then I was. 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...  The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth - Page 272by William Wordsworth - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...GAY'S Fables. GAY'S Fables. 11. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion ; the tall rock. The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours...were then to me An appetite, a feeling, and a love. WORDSWORTH. 36 12. Lovely indeed the mimic works of art, But Nature's works far lovelier. COWPER'S... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 338 pages
...cannot paint What then I was. 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 Ah appetite, a feeling, and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1848 - 458 pages
...Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their forms, were then to me An appetite, a feeling,...had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye. — That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1848 - 358 pages
...cannot paint What then 1 was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours...were then to me An appetite : a feeling and a love. Thai had no need of a remoter charm By thought supplied, or any interest T:nborrow'd from the eye.... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1848 - 266 pages
...the pleasantness of acquired association ; and the loss of the intense feeling of the youth, which "had no need of a remoter charm, by thought supplied, or any interest, unborrowed from the eye" is replaced by the gladness of conscience, and the vigour of the reflecting and imaginative faculties,... | |
 | Sir James Stephen, Thomas Noon Talfourd - English essays - 1848 - 356 pages
...sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock. The mountain, and the deep and (loomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite : a ferling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm By thought supplied, or any interest Unlrarrnw'd... | |
 | Anne Marsh-Caldwell - 1849 - 324 pages
...which his little heart had been accustomed, — " Their colours and their forms, which were to him An appetite, a feeling, and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm ;" Where were they ? He looked backwards down the little street of the village, where a pack of dirty,... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...eataraet Hannted me like a passion. s « r • * The monntain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their eolonrs and their forms, were then to me An appetite, a feeling, and a love." Byron and Bnrns are beings apart from Natnre, to whose enjoyment she holds the enp, aeeepted by the... | |
 | 1850 - 1254 pages
...charms of inanimate nature. -The sounding cataract Haunted me like n passion : i ho tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were there to me An appetite ; a feeling aud a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1851 - 394 pages
...nature on his mind: — — — " The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours...remoter charm By thought supplied, or any interest Unhorrow'd from the eye." So the forms of nature, or the human form divine, stood before the great... | |
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