 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1826 - 550 pages
...place of agony and strife, Where, for some sin, to Sorrow I was cast, To act and suffer. LORD BYRON. I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract...had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye. — That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Aesthetics - 1826 - 482 pages
...pleasure 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...had no need of a remoter charm By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye." So the forms of nature, or the human form divine, stood before... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Rationalism - 1826 - 486 pages
...of nature on his mind : • " The sound ing cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall ruck, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours...had no need of a remoter charm By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye." So the forms of nature, or the human form divine, stood before... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...he loved. 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...had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye. — That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by,) To me was all in all 1 cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract...had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye. — That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 416 pages
...sentiment, and almost of action ; or, as it will be found expressed, of a state of mind when — " the sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion :...had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye." — * These Poems are now printed entire. I will own that... | |
 | 1829 - 348 pages
...place of agony and strife, Where, for some sin, to Sorrow I was cast, To act and suffer. LORD BYRON. I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract...had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye. — That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no... | |
 | Robert Smith - Society of Friends - 1829 - 432 pages
...cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, T/ie mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours...had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye. That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 594 pages
...proceeds :— ' 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...forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and alove, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the... | |
 | English literature - 1834 - 864 pages
...boyish days, And their glad animal movements, all gone by) To me was all in all. I cannot paint \Vhat then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like...had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye. That tune is past, And all its aching joys are now no more,... | |
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I 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 An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter... 
