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...of the progress of his sympathy with the external world : — "Nature then (The coarser pleasure!! of my boyish days And their glad animal movements,...To me was all in all — I cannot paint What then 1 was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep...

...Wherever nature led : more like a man Flying from something that he dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movement» all gone by) To me was all in all. — I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract...

...philosophy. Having reverted to his first visit to the Wye, which was in his early youth, he proceeds : — c Nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days. And their glad auimal movements, all gone by) To me was all in all. I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract...

...tremulously alive to the charms of inanimate nature. -The sounding cataract Haunted me like n passion : i ho tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were there to me An appetite ; a feeling aud a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied,...

...as early as 1 798, on the banks of the Wye, while he w as visiting the ruins of Tintern Abbey : — "Nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days,...The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their firms, were then to me An appetite : a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter...

...dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then— The coarser pleasures of my joyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by...The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter...

...He recalls the first ardours of his youth, when the beautiful object itself of nature seemed to him all in all : — " I cannot paint What then I was....passion; the tall rock, The mountain and the deep and gloomy wood. Theircolours and their forms were thus to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love That had...

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