...answer is simple. He was true to himself and to nature. Even as he wrote of the good Lord Clifford : " Love had he found in huts where poor men lie • .,...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills." The false, factitious life of cities would have rendered hira powerless. Matthew Arnold, writing of...

...his new field of usefulness. " Love has he found in huts where poor men lie, His daily teachers have been woods and rills ; The silence that is in the...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills." Yet the cheerfulness of spirit that pervaded his earlier pictures, has been of late years toned into...

...bloom of a, field. VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT BLOOMFIELD. From Blackwood's Magazine for Sept. 1823. Love had he found in huts where poor men lie, His...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. WORDSWORTH. SWEET, simple poet, thou art gone ! And shall no parting tear be shed, By those to whom...

...hills." " The Oak and the Broom" " Love hail he found in huts where poor men lie, His daily teacher« had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills." " Song at the Feast of Brougham C/atU." " POETRY," says Leigh Hunt, " is the utterance of a passion...

...found in huts where poor men lie ; TTia daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that i> in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills." The words themselves in the foregoing extracts, are, no donbt, sufficiently common for the greater...

...could it be Wordsworth's ? But of him may most truly be written what ho wrote of the Shepherd Lord : " Love had he found in huts where poor men lie, His...sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills." In those eternal solitudes he learnt that " Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises...

...Pretentious art had been abandoned ; and Wilkic, who had found love — " In huts where poor men lie, Whose daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills," had found his subject in the sorrows and joys of common life and common people. It •will be remembered...

...teachers of his youth, as Wordsworth has numbered them, were still close at hand : — " Love had he seen in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had...sky — The sleep that is among the lonely hills." Ho was present at Floddenin 1513, when nearly 60, and led tho " flower of Craven : " — " From Pemgent...

...MEMORY OF ROBERT BLOOMFIELD. From Blackwood's Magazine for Sept. 1823. Love hncl he found in lints where poor men lie, His daily teachers had been woods...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. WORDSWORTH. SWEET, simple poet, thou art gone! And shall no parting tear be shed, By those to whom...

...tobacco, and the fun of climbing, rather dull his perceptions and incapacitate him from perceiving — Tho silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills ? Well, I have known some stupid and unpoetical mountaineers ; and since I have been dismounted from...