Earth has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers,, domes, theatres, and temples lie... Environs of London: Western Division - Page 5by John Fisher Murray - 1842 - 356 pagesFull view - About this book
| Hugh Reginald Haweis - Poetry - 1880 - 354 pages
...poetic sensibility, of which the matchless " Sonnet on Westminster Bridge," is a fine specimen : " Earth has not anything to show more fair ! Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty. This city now doth like a garment wear The beauty... | |
| Edward Thring - 1880 - 268 pages
...mystery if the Stranger can reveal, His be a welcome cordially bestowed. Wordsworth, Sonneti. IK. Earth has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty... | |
| William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...line trimeter, all others tetrameter. r& Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Septembers., 1802 Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty... | |
| Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...childish days, that were as long As twenty days are now. 12777 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge' Earth could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty. 12778 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge' Dear God!... | |
| Yi-Fu Tuan - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 164 pages
...myself standing with Wordsworth on Westminster Bridge, contemplating London and saying with him, Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty... | |
| Nahdjla Carasco Bailey - Education - 2014 - 132 pages
...in the poem. 1 5 Show how the mood of the poem is manifested through the many images employed. Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty... | |
| Fred Inglis - Business & Economics - 2000 - 234 pages
...sonnet on the city of London is a lesson in the making of such a sentiment from both ends: Earth hath not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This city now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty... | |
| Hans Werner Breunig - English literature - 2002 - 356 pages
...Sinne weiterläuft. Ein deutliches Beispiel hierfür ist 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge'.2 EARTH has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear 1 The Prelude... | |
| Anne Ferry - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 318 pages
...Bridge" without a closer look at it in the context of the poems grouped just before and after it: Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty... | |
| James Lovelock - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 474 pages
...and we walked arm-in-arm across the bridge that Wordsworth found so entrancing in his sonnet: Karth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty. His excitement could not have matched mine as I floated,... | |
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