Succeeding — still succeeding ! Here the Child Puts, when the high-swoln Flood runs fierce and wild, His budding courage to the proof; and here Declining Manhood learns to note the sly And sure encroachments of infirmity, Thinking how fast time runs... Rambles by the Ribble - Страница 51по William Dobson - 1864Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society - 1895 - 288 страници
...London. § Here, until almost within living memory, the only means of crossing was by the hipping stones. Stone matched with stone In studied symmetry, with...clear waters to pursue their race Without restraint. The present stone bridge was erected about eighty years ago, having been preceded by a wooden structure... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1899 - 342 страници
...ever and anon by plank or arch ; Stones •. '.d, for like use, lo ! what might seem a zone ' oscn for ornament — stone matched with stone In studied...interspace For the clear waters to pursue their race Wthout restraint. How swiftly have they flown, Succeeding — still succeeding ! Here the Child Puts,... | |
| Frederick Gaspard Brabant - 1902 - 448 страници
...usually agreed that these are the ones which Wordsworth celebrated. In all there are seventeen stones, Stone matched with stone In studied symmetry, with...clear waters to pursue their race Without restraint. By crossing the stones the road is easily rejoined. (c) The valley is now open as far as the turn beyond... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1904 - 676 страници
...a brook of loud and stately march, Crossed ever and anon by plank or arch ' And, for like use, lo ! what might seem a zone Chosen for ornament, stone...clear waters to pursue their race Without restraint. How swiftly have they flown, Succeeding, still succeeding ! Here the child Puts, when the high-swoln... | |
| William Angus Knight - 1904 - 492 страници
...Brook of Icrad and stately march, Crossed ever and anon by plank or arch ; And, for like use, lo : what might seem a zone Chosen for ornament — stone...stone In studied symmetry, with interspace For the dear waters to pursue their race Without restraint How swiftly have they flown, Succeeding — still... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1907 - 546 страници
...a Brook of loud and stately march, Crossed ever and anon by plank or arch ; And, for like use, lo ! what might seem a zone Chosen for ornament — stone...clear waters to pursue their race Without restraint. How swiftly have they flown, 1 Wrynose Fell. Succeeding — still succeeding ! Here the Child Puts,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1927 - 734 страници
...was to heal and to restore, To soothe and cleanse, not madden and pollute ! IX THE STEPPING-STOKES In studied symmetry, with interspace For the clear waters to pursue their race Without restraint. How swiftly have they flown, Succeeding — still succeeding ! Here the Child Puts, when the high-swoln... | |
| 1909 - 364 страници
...walked to Fox Howe, where Thomas Arnold lived, and then to the stepping-stones, crossing and recrossing "stone matched with stone In studied symmetry, with...interspace For the clear waters to pursue their race." Farther on we crossed the stream again by the Pelter Bridge and returned to Ambleside along the highway... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 578 страници
...a brook of loud and stately march, Crossed ever and anon by plank or arch ; And, for like use, lo ! what might seem a zone Chosen for ornament — stone...clear waters to pursue their race Without restraint. How swiftly have they flown, Succeeding — still succeeding ! Here the child Puts, when the high-swollen... | |
| Frederic Stewart Colwell - 1989 - 246 страници
...Duddon's girdling bridges and artfully contrived stepping stones with the unrestrained river: ... lo! what might seem a zone Chosen for ornament - stone...clear waters to pursue their race Without restraint. (9.4-8) The stanza closes with the heightened contrast provided by a figure of "declining Manhood"... | |
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