 | 1871 - 528 страници
...help quoting Wordsworth in comparison : — " Books, 'tis a dull and endless strife, Come hear thc woodland linnet ; How sweet his music — on my life There's more of wisdom in it. And hark ! how hlithe the throstle sings, He too is no moan preacher ; Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 страници
...green fields has spread, Books I 'tis a dull and endless strife: uome, hear the woodland linnet, iow sweet his music ! on my life, there's more of wisdom in it. And hark ! how hlithe the throstle sin^s ! le, too, is no mean preacher : Come forth into the light of things, Let... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1871 - 630 страници
...lustre mellow Through all the lonç green fields has spread, His first sweet cvcuuifi yellow. Books I 'tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music I on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. And hark ! how blithe the throstle sin^s ! He, too, is... | |
 | John Stuart Colquhoun - 1871 - 264 страници
...catalectic. | ' ' The sun | above | the motm ] tain's head, | | A fresh | 'ning lus | tre mel | low Through all the long green fields has spread, His first sweet evening yellow. " WORDSWORTH. Of four and Sometimes the stanzas are composed of four three feet _ _ ' alternately,... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1872 - 530 страници
...friend, and quit your books, Or surely you'll grow double," is Wordsworth's expostulating appeal. " Books ! 'tis a dull and endless strife : Come, hear...music ! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it." That is the poetical side of an appeal of which Hogarth's is the prosaic one, in the impromptu he is... | |
 | Alfred Smee - 1872 - 732 страници
...a caged bird, kept by a neighbour, afforded to me once when I was confined to bed for a few days. " Books ! — 'tis a dull and endless strife : Come,...music ! On my life There's more of wisdom in it."— WORDSWORTH. Only one or two of the beautiful Goldfinches (Fringilla Cardnclis, fig. 1167) have been... | |
 | Alfred Smee - 1872 - 750 страници
...neighbour, afforded to me once when I was confined to bed for a few days in early spring. " Hooks ! — 'tis a dull and endless strife : Come, hear the woodland...music ! On my life There's more of wisdom in it." — WORDSWORTH. Only one or two of the beautiful Goldfinches (Fringilla Cardnelis, fig. 1167) have... | |
 | Pye Henry Chavasse - 1873 - 348 страници
...him to be — a happy, laughing, joyous child. Do not let him be always poring over books : — ' ' Books ! 'tis a dull and endless strife, Come, hear...life There's more of wisdom in it. And hark ! how Withe the throstle sings ! He, too, is no mean preacher : Come forth into the light of things,— Let... | |
 | Alfred Edmund Brehm - 1874 - 970 страници
...THE NATURALIST AND THE BIRD. " Books, 'tis a dull anj endless strife, Come hear the woodland Linuet ; How sweet his music — on my life There's more of wisdom in it. And hark how blithe the Throstle siugs, He, too, is no mean preacher ; Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature he your teacher."... | |
 | Alfred Edmund Brehm - 1874 - 970 страници
...of it to murder and destroy, but never using to protect. CHAPTER VI. THE NATURALIST AND THE BIRD. " Books, 'tis a dull and endless strife, Come hear the woodland Linnet; How sweet his music—on my life There's more of wisdom in it. And hark how blithe the Throstle sings, He, too, is... | |
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tis a dull and endless strife : Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music ! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. 
