The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor... Cyclopædia of English literature - Page 327by Robert Chambers - 1844Full view - About this book
| William Wordsworth - 1800 - 272 pages
...boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by,) To me was all in all. I cannot.paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me...Unborrowed from the eye. That time is past, And all its achingjoys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this 205 Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 pages
...food For future years. And so I dare to hope Though changed, no doubt, from what I was, when first I came among these hills ; when like a roe I bounded...interest Unborrowed from the eye. That time is past, Avnd all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by)' To me was all in all.-I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract...thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye.That time is past And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for... | |
| William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1805 - 284 pages
...food For future years. And so I dare to hopa Though changed, no doubt, from what I was, when first I came among these hills; when like a roe I bounded...feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charrn, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye. That time is past, And all... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...food For future years. And so I dare to hope Though changed, no doubt, from what I was, when first I came among these hills ; when like a roe I bounded...feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, 76 By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye. That time is past, And all its... | |
| William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 pages
...thought, sentiment, and almost of action ; or, as it will be found expressed, of a state of mind when " the sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion :...supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye" Twill own that I was much at a loss what to select of these descriptions; and perhaps it would... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 pages
...thought, sentiment, and almost of action ; or, as it will be found expressed, of a state of mind when " the sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion :...remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Uiiborrowed from the eye" I will own that I was much at a loss what to select of these descriptions... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 pages
...original, that the redder may judge if we are correct, especially as the poem is not very well known. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion :...feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter charm, &c. Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads, Vol. I. p. Iwi. CHIT. Rsv. VOL. IV. Nov. 1816. 3 T " Now, where the... | |
| 1838 - 884 pages
...And their glad varied moments all gone by) To me was all in all. I cannot paint What then I was. Tho sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the...forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a lojjre That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any Interest I'nborrowed from... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1820 - 378 pages
...thought, sentiment, and almost of action ; or, as it will be found expressed, of a state of mind when " the sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion :...supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye" * These Poems are now printed entire. I will own that I was much at a loss what to select of these... | |
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