| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...gladness lay Beneath him: — Far and wide the clouds were touched, And in their silent faces could he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The speetacle : sensation, soul, and form, All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light ! He look'd — Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay In gladness and deep joy. The clouds weretouch'd, And in their silent faces could he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 578 pages
...! He looked — Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth. And ocean's liquid mow, beneath him lap In gladness and deep joy. The clouds were touched....him. They swallowed up His animal being ; in them did be lire. And by them did he live : they were his life." ( Emrtitm.) Can it be expected, that either... | |
| sir Henry Taylor - 1849 - 328 pages
...groves, Think not of any severing of our loves.' In ' The Excursion ' — ' Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth, And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay In gladness and deep joy. ' We are aware that there are passages in Mr. Wordsworth's works which might lead to the supposition... | |
| Francis Bowen - Apologetics - 1849 - 488 pages
...adequately described only in the poet's inspired language : — "He looked; Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth, And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay In gladness and deep joy Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle ; sensation, soul, and form... | |
| Francis Bowen - Apologetics - 1849 - 500 pages
...adequately described only in the poet's inspired language : — " He looked ; Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth, And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay In gladness and deep joy Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle ; sensation, soul, and form... | |
| Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 384 pages
...headland he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light ? He looked ; Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him...needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank 1 The spectacle ; sensations, soul and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being... | |
| Religious poetry - 1850 - 340 pages
...he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light ! He looked — Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay In gladness and deep joy. The clouds were touch'd, And in their silent faces did he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of... | |
| Richard Henry Dana - American literature - 1850 - 484 pages
...with him, every thing has soul and sense. Never has he turned toward a morning or evening sky, but " The clouds were touched, And in their silent faces did he read Unutterable love." His scenes, for the most part, are of the beautiful kind, and lie quietly in gentle sunlight, though... | |
| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1851 - 750 pages
...he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light ! He looked — Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him...spectacle : sensation, soul, and form All melted into bun ; they swallowed up His animal being; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were... | |
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