Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of ocean on his winding shore... Essentials of Poetry: Lowell Lectures, 1911 - Página 143por William Allan Neilson - 1912 - 282 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 páginas
...character of his picture by a rapid sketch of still nobler features: — [Rural Sounds.] Nor rural eights octrines fashioned to the varying hour »weep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of ocean... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 páginas
...Just undulates upon the listening ear, Groves, heaths, and smoking villages, remote. RURAL SOUNDS. NOR rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate...shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind ; Unnumbered branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast fluttering, all at once. Nor less... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 922 páginas
...Gilpin, long live he ; And when he next doth ride abroad, May I be there to see ! LOVE OF NATURE. NOB. rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the...shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind; Unnumbered branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves, fast fluttering, all at once. Nor less... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 564 páginas
...survives 25 Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years ; Praise justly due to those that I describe. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate...restore The tone of languid nature. Mighty winds, 30 That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 páginas
...library, in which he rend» and contemplates the power, wisdom, and goodness of God. — /Vim. Not re they do not marry. — Fuller. Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living — f'otrper. There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchard«, in fields, streams, and... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 792 páginas
...his library, in which he reads and contemplates the power, wisdom, and goodness of God. — Perm. Not be taken — Cmtrper. There is virtue in country housrs, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams, and groves,... | |
 | Myra Reynolds - 1896 - 312 páginas
...with a livelier green Betrays the secret of their silent course." 2 Or these about forest sounds : "Mighty winds That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike v The dash of ocean on his winding shore."3 In wider descriptions, as of extended views, there is absolutely... | |
 | Edward Mortimer Chapman - 1910 - 602 páginas
...ploughmen in the fields and woodmen in the forests, of wild birds, tame hares, and grazing cattle. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate...shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind. 1 That last line might serve as motto for a large part of Cowper's work. He who would know the poet... | |
 | Edward Mortimer Chapman - 1910 - 604 páginas
...ploughmen in the fields and woodmen in the forests, of wild birds, tame hares, and grazing cattle. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate...winding shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind.1 That last line might serve as motto for a large part of Cowper's work. He who would know the... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 páginas
...innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. 4377 Goldsmith : Des. Tillage. Line 57. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate...shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind. 4378 Cowper : Task. Bk. i. Line 181. Ye gentle souls, who dream of rural ease, Whom the smooth stream... | |
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