 | William Wordsworth, William Angus Knight - 1888 - 396 pages
...torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake. Fair is the spot, most beautiful the vale Where he was born and bred : the church-yard hangs Upon a... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 268 pages
...torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake. This boy was taken from his mates, and died In childhood, ere he was full twelve years old. Fair is... | |
 | Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1890 - 228 pages
...torrents; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake." The wonderful experience, described in these lines with the inimitable simplicity of nature itself, marks... | |
 | Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1891 - 222 pages
...torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake. It is in such moods as this, when all things are forgotten, and heart and mind are open to every sight... | |
 | Edward Caird - Literature - 1892 - 314 pages
...; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind, With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake." Such passages — and many more remarkable might be quoted — cannot be read without a " gentle shock... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1893 - 696 pages
...mountain-torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake. This boy was taken from his mates, and died In childhood, ere he was full twelve years old. Pre-eminent... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literary Criticism - 1895 - 272 pages
...or the visible scene* Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, 5 Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake." 2 The second shall be that noble imitation of Drayton3 (if it was not rather a coincidence) in the... | |
 | Kenyon West - Poets laureate - 1895 - 588 pages
...into his heart the voice Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake. 1799V. PERSONAL TALK. I AM not one who much or oft delight To season my fireside with personal talk... | |
 | Kenyon West - Literary Criticism - 1895 - 614 pages
...torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake. 1799V. PERSONAL TALK. I AM not one who much or oft delight To season my fireside with personal talk... | |
 | Sierra Club - Conservation of natural resources - 1915 - 506 pages
...— or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind, With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods and that uncertain heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake." Oh, the blessedness of having been a boy in the country! What gladness in the experience, what riches... | |
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Of mountain torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake. 
