...novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years : Praise justly due tp those which I describe. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate...winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood RURAL SIGHTS AND SOUNDS. 153 Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of ocean on his winding...

...novelty survives Long k ,wledge and the scrutiny of years : Praise justly due to those that I describe. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate...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,...

...mind, that pause from thought and care, which all of us seek so wistfully and find so seldom. " Not rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. — Nature inanimate employs sweet sounds, But animated nature sweeter still, To soothe and satisfy...

...sympathy. Nor could he have entered into the feeling expressed by Cowper in the well-known passage : " Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate...shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind," &c. Had there been nothing else in the pagan pastoral than the lore and legends of a false creed, it...

...blusterous southwester through leafless trees. At such times Cowper's beautiful lines always recur to me : " Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading...branches waving in the blast , And all their leaves fast-fluttering, all at once." And now, although the "leaves" were gone, the music happily remained....

...soutb. wester through leafless trees. At such times Cowper's beautiful lint? always recur to me : " Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading...branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast-fluttering, all at once." And now, although the " leaves " were gone, the music remained. Tired,...

...his frequent quotation : — I 2 " Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirits, and restore The tone of languid nature. Mighty winds...not unlike The dash of ocean on his winding shore. Nature inanimate employs sweet sounds, But animated nature sweeter still, To soothe and satisfy the...

...thought too woolly by a generation which has a passion for fine things, I will allow myself another : •Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate...not unlike The dash of ocean on his winding shore of rills that slip Through the cleft rock, and chiming as they fall Upon loose pebbles, lose themselves...

...knowledge and the scrutiny of years : j Praise justly due to those that I describe. 180 \ THE SOFA. 187 That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of...unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore, And lull-the spirit while they fill the mind ; Unnumbered branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves...

...novelty 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...