| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1849 - 406 страници
...By the inferior Faculty that moulds, With her minute and speculative pains, Opinion, ever changing ! I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 страници
...speculative pains, Opinion, ever changing ! I have seen Л curious child, who dwelt upon a tract ( )f inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions...soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Ilrightened with joy ; for from within were heard Murmuring», whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious... | |
| Morning call - 1850 - 618 страници
...the glory of its illuminating sun. " I have seen," says the poet Wordsworth, A curious child, that dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his...To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intently ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous... | |
| Anne Pratt - 1850 - 372 страници
...dreamed that they told of the rising tide. Our philosophic poet Wordsworth alluded to this : — " I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a thick-lipp'd shell, To which in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intensely ; and his countenance... | |
| George Johnston - 1850 - 634 страници
...of his whelk, of storms at sea, and of the fluxes of the tide ! For, with Wordsworth, I have oftimes seen " A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of...ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell ; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intensely, and his countenance... | |
| Henry Harbaugh - 1851 - 328 страници
...everlasting ruin ! CHAPTER IV. !>iltnpDtljt} bitmttn 33mnt unit <fattlj. "I have seen A curious child, that dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his...To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intently; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for, murmuring from within Were heard, sonorous... | |
| John Aikin - 1852 - 792 страници
...By the inferior faculty that moulds, With her minute and speculative pains, Opinion, ever changing ! horn they stretch an' strive, Deil tak the hindmost,...drive, Till a' their weel-swall'd kytes belyve Are smooth-lipp'd shell ; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intensely; and his countenance... | |
| 1852 - 302 страници
...worth a thousand. You may find it in " The Excursion," if I am iiot mistaken : "I hare seen A ourious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth lipped shell, To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely, and his countenance... | |
| Henry Harbaugh - 1852 - 314 страници
...btimnn 13 nm nnit "I have seen A curious child, that dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying lo his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell,...To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intently ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for, murmuring from within Were heard, sonorous... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1852 - 480 страници
...of religion, nor the light of life, where faith in that which is above nature is weak or wanting. D I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland-ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell • To which, in silence... | |
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