 Ah! Then, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw, and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile Amid a world how different from...  Duffy's Hibernian Magazine: A Monthly Journal of Legends, Tales, and Stories ... - Page 2631862Full view - About this book
 | 1889 - 614 pages
...working upon the passive impression blended thought and matter, produced the new creation, and added ' the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream.' But this creative work of the imagination is only possible j when the relations of Nature with man... | |
 | 1849 - 604 pages
...with a purer breath, the cloud that obscures her countenance, imparts to her ' The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream.' The truth of these principles is confirmed by their congruity with the philosophy of the drama, by which... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pages
...all gentle Things. Ah ! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ! Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...gentle Things. 141 Ah! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ! Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...Things. VOL. II. Z 337 Ah ! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ' Amid a world how different from this } Beside a sea... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 pages
...being. It were difficult to name any thing else of human workmanship so thoroughly transfigured with "the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream." The celestial and the earthly are here so commingled, — commingled, but not confounded, — that we see... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...Things. VOL. II. z Ah ! THEM, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ! Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 326 pages
...nearest of all modern writers to Shakespear and Milton; and yet in a kind perfectly un borrowed and his own. To employ his own words, which are at once an...or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream." 172 I shall select a few examples as most obviously manifesting this faculty ; but if I should ever... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1832 - 378 pages
...all gentle Tilings. Ah ! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ! Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1834 - 360 pages
...writers to Shakspearo and Milton : and yet in a kind perfectly unborrowed and his own. To employ bis own words,, which are at once an instance and an illustration,...or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream." I shall select a few examples as most obviously manifesting this faculty ; but if I should ever be... | |
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