 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...Of his own sorrow), he and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet erthwait alretch'd his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By Sun or Moon-light, to the inftuies Of shapes... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1842 - 440 pages
...he had better far have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moonlight, to the influxes Of shapes, and sounds, and shifting...of his song And of his fame forgetful ! so his fame A venerable thing ! and so his song Should make all nature lovelier, and itself Beloved, like nature... | |
 | Wood-notes - 1842 - 160 pages
...Of his own sorrow,) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain, And many a poet echoes the conceit ; Poet who hath been building up the rhyme, When he had better far have stretch'd his limbs ' | Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moonlight, to the influxes Of... | |
 | 1897 - 986 pages
...of his writings, for the pressure of poverty has been the means of keeping many a poet at his desk When he had better far have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest dell By sun or moonlight, to the influxes Of shapes and sounds and shifting elements Surrendering... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1846 - 332 pages
...Of his own sorrows,) he and such as he First named these notes a melancholy strain : And many a poet echoes the conceit ; Poet, who hath been building up the rhyme When he had better far have stretch'd his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moonlight, to the influxes Of shapes,... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - English literature - 1846 - 618 pages
...had.' If I am not mistaken, is often prefatory or parenthetical to an affirmative, in our language * " Poet who hath been building up the rhyme . . . When he had better far han stretched bis limbs Beeide a brook, in money forest dell." COLKRIDGK. A similar instance has been... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1847 - 310 pages
...Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit ; Poet who hath been building up...limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moon-light, to the influxes Of shapes and sounds and shifting elements Surrendering his whole spirit,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...his own sorrow) — he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit ; Poet who hath been building up...limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moonlight, to the influxes Of shapes and sounds and shifting elements Surrendering his whole spirit,... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...Of his own sorrows) he and such as he First named these notes a melancholy strain : And many a poet echoes the conceit ; Poet, who hath been building...limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moon-light, to the influxes Of shapes and sounds and shifting elements Surrending his whole spirit,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 578 pages
...Of hi« own sorrow), he and such n he. First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit ; Poet who hath been building up the rhyme When he had betler far have stretch'd his limb« Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By Sun or Moon-light, to... | |
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Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch! filled all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit;... 
