...of himself is doubly true of Tennyson : — He is retired as noontide dew, Or snow within a summer's grove ; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love. Except a few of the highest, such as Shakespeare, who possess that masculine power of thought that...

...of himself is doubly true of Tennyson :— He is retired as noontide dew, Or snow within a summer's grove; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love. Except a few of the highest, such as Shakespeare, who possess that masculine power of thought that...

...appearance, of WORDSWORTH'S lines : " Bat who is he with modest looks And clad in homely russet-brown t He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own. He is retired an noon-tide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove ; And you must lore him, ere to you He will seem...

...imagination, and imposes on it from within influences stronger than any it receives from without. " The outward shows of sky and earth, Of hill and valley, he has viewed ;" but "impulses of deeper birth Have come to him in solitude. " * Reverie is not solitary, and Wordsworth...

...with, the true Poet does not therefore abandon his privilege distinct from that of the mere Prosemau; ' He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own.' Let us come now to the consideration of the words Fancy and Imagination, as employed in the classification...

...watch Near this unprofitable dust. But who is he with modest looks, And clad in homely russet brown ? He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter...shows of sky and earth, Of hill and valley, he has view'd ; And impulses of deeper birth Have come to him in solitude. In common things that round us...

...watch Near this unprofitable dust. But who is he with modest looks, And clad in homely russet brown ? He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter...retired as noontide dew Or fountain in a noon-day grovo ; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love. The outward shows of sky...

...purity of an angel, — the poet's Epitaph, containing those lines, so often applied to himself, — He is retired as noon-tide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove ; And you must love him, ere to you He mil seem worthy of your love ; — these and others of his poems less popular, he composed during that...

...sound of the human voice, as when the poet is indulging in solitary and all but silent meditation— He murmurs, near the running brooks, A music sweeter than their own. 1 Or when the fond woman softly breathes out a sad farewell to her lover— Tristis abes, oculis abcuntem...

...her to dinner, though her eyes were red with weeping. CHAPTER VII. LIFE AND SOCIETY AT BLACKTARN. " The outward shows of sky and earth, Of hill and valley, he hath viewed; And impulses of deeper birth, Have come to him in solitude." "They see A happy youth,...