 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...  The Poetical Works of William Cowper - Page 187by William Cowper - 1924 - 536 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of...all at once. Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer voice Of neighbouring fountain, or of rills that slip Through the... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirits, and restore The tone of languid nature. Mighty winds That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of...shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind. Hid. God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then, that health and virtue, gifts That... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 pages
...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...shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind ; Unnumber'd branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast fluttering, all at once. Nor less... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...survives Long knowledge and the scrutinv of vears : Praise justly due to those that I describe. Unnumber'd branches waving in the blast. And all their leaves...all at once. Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer voice Of neighbouring fountain, or of rills that slip Through the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1825 - 574 pages
...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...all at once. Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer voice Of neighbouring fountain, or of rills that slip Through the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 pages
...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...shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind, Unnumber'd branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast flutt'ring all at once. Nor less... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 258 pages
...alone, but rural sounds Exhilerate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood, Of...shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind, Unnumber'd branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast fluttering all at once. t Nor less... | |
 | William Cowper - 1825 - 252 pages
...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...shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind ; Unnumber'd branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast fluttering, all at once, Nor less... | |
 | William Cowper - 1825 - 248 pages
...unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind ; Unnumber'd branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves...all at once, Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer voice Of neighbouring fountain, or of rills that slip Through the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...sweep the skirt; of some far-spreading wood Of aneient growth, make musie not unlike The dash of oeean on his winding shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind ; Unnumbered branehes waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast fluttering, all at onee. Nor less eomposure... | |
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