 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1890 - 276 pages
...charge than which none could be more painful to him, except perhaps that of having ridiculed his Bible. 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1893 - 886 pages
...Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these cotes 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,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 518 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...the rhyme When he had better far have stretched his limb« Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By mn or moon-light, to the influxes Of shapes and sounds... | |
 | Frederick Noël Paton - Birds - 1894 - 604 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,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Richmond (England) - 1896 - 136 pages
...Coleridge, a kindred spirit in not a few respects, thought had on the whole better not be produced. Building up the rhyme When he had better far have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in sunny forest dell, By sun or moonlight ; to the influences Of shapes and sounds and shifting elements... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1897 - 106 pages
...j&olian Harp. Coleridge often upbraids those poets who project themselves into nature. "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,... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1897 - 526 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... | |
 | Literature - 1897 - 916 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 Taylor Coleridge - Bookbinding, Victorian - 1898 - 300 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,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Bookbinding, Victorian - 1898 - 300 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,... | |
| |
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;... 
