Ah ! then if mine had been the painter's hand To express what then I saw, and add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream... Poems, in Two Volumes, - Página 138de William Wordsworth - 1807 - 170 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1862 - 542 páginas
...at once an instance and an illustration, he does, indeed, to all thoughts and to all objects — ' Add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream." ' THE FIRST DOCTORS. PARTIL WE have already seen that the sacerdotal colleges amongst the heithen nations... | |
| 1864 - 546 páginas
...familiar appearances and common facts of earth, adding, as he himself says— VOL. XLI.— NO. LXXXI. C " The gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream;" we are tempted to ask, Is this true, is the light real, or only fantastic ? Now in this we conceive... | |
| 1864 - 744 páginas
...spiritualizing so powerfully the familiar appearances and common facts of earth, adding, as he himself says — "The gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; " we are tempted to ask, Is this true? is the light real, or only fantastic? Now in this we conceive... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1866 - 354 páginas
...by cloud or vapors ; — but it is something more than these, something beyond, and over all— • The gleam, The light that never was on sea or land The consecration, and the poet's dream I : Genoa,*. We arrived here late, and I should not write now, weary, weak, sick, and down-spirited as... | |
| Richard P. Carton - 1867 - 40 páginas
...weakness and of man's sin, — the Orator by nature can alone call down, and bid play around it — " The gleam, The light that never was on sea or land — The consecration and the poet's dream." And when such occasions do arise, the Orator's art, at least in an Irish Court of Justice, has lost... | |
| 1868 - 398 páginas
...away or brings : I could have fancied that the mighty deep Wns even the gentlest of all gentle things. "Ah, then, if mine had been the painter's hand, To...thou hoary pile, Amid a world how different from this I Beside a sea that could not cease to smile ; On tranquil hud, beneath a sky of bliss. " Thou should'st... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 páginas
...brings : 10 I could have fancied that the mighty Deep \\'as even the gentlest of all gentle things. Ah ! then, if mine had been the painter's hand To...and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, 15 The consecration, and the poet's dream, — I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile,... | |
| 1869 - 1208 páginas
...or brings : I could have fancied that the mighty deep Was even the gentlest of all gentle things. " Ah ! then, if mine had been the painter's hand, To...smile ; On tranquil land, beneath a sky of bliss. " Thon shouldst have eccm'da treasure-home, a mine Of peaceful years ; a chronicle of heaven : —... | |
| James Hain Friswell - 1869 - 496 páginas
...And all that mighty heart is lying still. All these lines have indeed, in Wordsworth's own words — The gleam, The light that never was on sea or land ; The consecration, and the poet's dream ; and when first read are like a revelation. Many a student of this great man may not himself be an... | |
| 1870 - 646 páginas
...of Peele Castle in a Storm, painted by Sir George Beaumont. The verse in which the line occurs is ' Ah ! then, if mine had been the painter's hand, To...or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream.' EAB begs to know if anyone could tell her where to procure the music of a hymn that was sung by the... | |
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