| Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1889 - 344 страници
...which the matchless "Sonnet on Westminster Bridge," is a fine specimen •. " Earth has not anything to show more fair! Dull would he be of soul who could...garment wear The beauty of the morning : silent, bare, Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never... | |
| Charles Bullock - 1889 - 216 страници
...Wordsworth's sonnet came to the mind of the Times reporter, — "Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty ; This city now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the night." The lighting of the beacon fires was a great success, beginning with... | |
| Mrs. Grace Townsend - 1890 - 640 страници
...land. —Fits Greene Halteck. London. [Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 1803.] EARTH has not anything to show more fair; Dull would he be of soul who could...in its majesty; This city now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto... | |
| Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton - 1891 - 574 страници
...all its cares, to rest 1 " COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPT. 3, 1802. "Earth has not anything to show more fair; Dull would he be of soul who could...the morning ; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theaters, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky, All bright, and glittering in the smokeless... | |
| Herbert Greenhough Smith, Sir George Newnes - 1903 - 966 страници
...more fair, he wrote in his lines on " Westminster Bridge." Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : This city now...the morning, silent, bare : Ships, towers, domes, and theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky. Thackeray thought that the views... | |
| Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 576 страници
..." Earth has not anything to show more fair ; Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight sp touching in its majesty : This city now doth like...the morning ; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theaters, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky, All bright and glittering in the smokeless... | |
| Grace Townsend - 1891 - 570 страници
...1803.] I~7 ARTH has not anything to show more fair; 1 -» Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty; This city now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto... | |
| 1892 - 522 страници
...passage to the salt-sea tides! XXXVI. 1819. COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPTEMBER 3, 1802. 1 EARTH has not any thing to show more fair: Dull would...garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, 5 Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright... | |
| Goldwin Smith - 1892 - 152 страници
...likely to have a chance of seeing what Wordsworth saw from Westminster Bridge : Earth has not anything to show more fair ; Dull would he be of soul who could...its majesty ; This City now doth, like a garment, wear The heauty of the morning ; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open... | |
| Frederick Henry Sykes - 1895 - 690 страници
...dead. — Walt Whitman. COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPTEMBER 3, 1802. Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could...garment, wear The beauty of the morning ; silent, bare, 5 Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky ; AH bright and... | |
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