 | American literature - 1865 - 820 pages
...looks, And clad in homely russet brown, Who murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than his own? He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in...him ere to you, He will seem worthy of your love." This seems almost a portrait of Lamb, and was, no doubt, as amusing to him as Coleridge's expression... | |
 | 1844 - 532 pages
...qualities of our theological champion are more fully developed than any simulation of vultus or iogce. " He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon,day...him ere to you He will seem worthy of your love," &c., steals acceptably on our sight the Rev. Alfred Churlon. His character is drawn so closely, in... | |
 | American periodicals - 1871 - 860 pages
...the least motion which they made, It seemed a thrill of pleasure." Or let us take this other : — " He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noonday grove. And you must love him, e'er to you He will seem worthy of your love. The outward shows of sky and earth, Of hill and valley,... | |
 | Literature - 1910 - 862 pages
...controvert. The logic is so exact, the emotion so restrained! The frame of mind in which Wordsworth wrote "and you must love him ere to you he will seem worthy of your love" seems alien to this just and kindly judge. He would say that it would be foolish to bestow your love,... | |
 | 1910 - 848 pages
...controvert. The logic is so exact, the emotion so restrained! The frame of mind in which Wordsworth wrote "and you must love him ere to you he will seem worthy of your love" seems alien to this just and kindly judge. He would say that it would be foolish to bestow your love,... | |
 | 856 pages
...part of readers who are not inclined to study the Poet's writings in the spirit of his own words : " And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love." Such are the thoughts which our comparatively brief study of this poem has suggested to ua. Far be... | |
 | Literature - 1851 - 824 pages
...sweetly moving verse, and I think that I can see how it is with him, as with others, that — " You musí love him, ere to you, He will seem worthy of your love." — Wordiicorth. But, let me not trespass too far »pon your patience. Much more I might say, perhaps... | |
 | 1849 - 442 pages
...love people ? When they unveil to us their hearts, and we find their hearts worthy our research. " You must love him ere to you he will seem worthy of your love." How fond people are of talking of their knowledge and experience, repeating over all they have witnessed... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...watch Near this unprofitable dust. But who is He, with modest looks, And clad in homely russet brown 1 loud chiming, and the hunted yon He will seem worthy of your love. The outward shows of sky and earth, Of hill and valley, he has... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 524 pages
...Prelude to a Ballad never written. Here also was written A Poet's Epitaph, Art thou a Statist ?6 ' He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noonday...love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love ; ' words which some of his most intimate friends have applied to the author himself.* Here also were... | |
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He is retired- as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove ; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love. 
