 | England - 1851 - 790 pages
...He recalls the first ardours of his youth, when the beautiful object itself of nature seemed to him all in all : — " I cannot paint What then I was....passion; the tall rock, The mountain and the deep and gloomy wood. Theircolours and their forms were thus to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love That had... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1851 - 394 pages
...sweetens pain. A fine poet thus describes the effect of the sight of nature on his mind: — — — " The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion :...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... | |
 | Scotland - 1851 - 792 pages
...the beantiful object when the beautiful itself of nature seemed to him all in all : — " I caunot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted...like a passion ; the tall rock, The mountain, and the dctp and gloom/ wood. Their colours and their forms were thus to me An appetite; a feeling and a love... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1851 - 750 pages
...thought, sentimenl, an': almost of action ; or as it will be found express*). of a state of mind when -" the sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, * These Poems are now printed entire. Their colours and their forma were then to me An... | |
 | England - 1851 - 776 pages
...nature seemed to him all in all :— " I caunot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Hannted me like a passion ; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood. Their colours and their forms were thns to me An appetite; a feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 354 pages
...pleasure! of my hoyish days And their glad animal movement!, all gone by) To me wat all In all — 1 cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract...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... | |
 | Augusta Browne - Biography & Autobiography - 1852 - 216 pages
...stealing through the glade, had sent refreshment to his weary soul." " The sounding cataract Haunted him like a passion ; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood; Their colours, and their forms were then to him An appetite, a feeling, and a love, That had no need of a... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...led : more like a man Flying from something that he dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish...and gloomy wood, Their colors and their forms, were theu to me An appetite; a feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter charm, liy thought supplied,... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - Literature - 1853 - 412 pages
...led ; more like a man, Flying from something that he dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish...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... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...led : more like a man Flying from something that he dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish...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... | |
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For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all. I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and... 
