| English literature - 1815 - 698 pages
...tranquillity, So calm and still, and look'd so beautiful Amid th' uneasy thoughts which fill'd my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair, From ruin...the grief The passing shews of being leave behind, Appear'd an idle dream, that could not live Where meditation was. I turned away, And walk'd along my... | |
| England - 1819 - 792 pages
...tranquillity, So calm and soil, and looked so beautiful, Amid the uneasy thoughts that filled my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair, From ruin...idle dream, that could not live Where meditation was. Notions like those of Mr Wordsworth are evidently suited only to a life purely contemplative ; but... | |
| England - 1819 - 782 pages
...tranquillity. So calm and still, and looked so beautiful, Amid the uneasy thoughts that filled my mind. That what we feel of sorrow and despair. From ruin...idle dream, that could not live Where meditation was. Notions like those of Mr Wordsworth are evidently suited only to a life purely contemplative ; but... | |
| 1819 - 808 pages
...tranquillity, So calm and still, and looked so beautiful, Amid the uneasy thoughts that filled my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair, From ruin...idle dream, that could not live Where meditation was. Notions like those of Mr Words, worth are evidently suited only to « life purely contemplative ; hut... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1827 - 452 pages
...tranquillity, So calm and still, and look'd so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which fill'd my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief The passing shows of Being leave behind, Appear'd an idle dream, that could not live Where meditation was. I turn'd... | |
| William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...tranquillity. So calm and still, and look'd so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which fill'd my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin and from <-li.iii;;<-, and all the grief • The passing shows of Bcii)|; leave behind, 1 Appear' d an idle... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1836 - 398 pages
...tranquillity, So calm and still, and looked so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which filled my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief The passing shows of Being leave' behind, Appeared an idle dream, that could not live Where meditation was. I turned... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 796 pages
...tranquillity, So calm and still, and look'd so beautiful Amid th' uneasy thoughts which fill'd my mind, shows of being leave behind, Appear'd an idle dream, that could not live Where meditation was. I turn'd... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 750 pages
...tranquillity, So calm and still, and look'd so beautiful Amid th' uneasy thoughts which fill'd my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief The passing shows of being leave behind, Appear'd an idle dream, that could not live Where meditation wag. I turn'd... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1841 - 400 pages
...tranquillity, So calm and still, and looked so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which filled my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief The passing shows of Being leave behind, Appeared an idle dream, that could not live Where meditation was. I turned... | |
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