 | George Barrell Cheever - 1852 - 478 páginas
...nature is weak or wanting. D I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland-ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped...To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened inlently; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous... | |
 | 1852 - 302 páginas
...worth a thousand. You may find it in " The Excursion," if I am iiot mistaken : "I hare seen A ourious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth lipped shell, To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely, and his countenance... | |
 | Henry Harbaugh - 1852 - 314 páginas
...btimnn 13 nm nnit "I have seen A curious child, that dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying lo his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell,...To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intently ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for, murmuring from within Were heard, sonorous... | |
 | H. C. Foster - 1853 - 378 páginas
...In the sublime attractions of the Grave. 1 84 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. THE RESPONSES OF EXTERNAL NATURE. I HAVE seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard, — sonorous cadences ! whereby To his belief, the monitor expressed... | |
 | George Burrowes - 1853 - 542 páginas
...words of Wordsworth for expressing nobler emotions than they seem to have been intended to embody: "I have seen A curious child who dwelt upon a tract...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for murmurings from within Were heard, — sonorous cadences ! whereby To his belief, the monitor expressed... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1853 - 716 páginas
...By the inferior Faculty that moulds, With her minute and speculative pains, Opinion, ever changing ! I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance sewn Brightened with joy ; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious... | |
 | Henry Harbaugh - 1853 - 314 páginas
...to everlasting ruin ! CHAPTER IV. tottnnu IBunBti unit <0uitlj. " I have seen A curious child, that dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his...To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intently; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for, murmuring from within Were heard, sonorous... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1853 - 666 páginas
...birthplace moan, as moans the ocean-shell. Such a shell as Wordsworth has beautifully described. " 1 have seen A curious child who dwelt upon a tract Of...ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell ; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intently, and his countenance... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1853 - 300 páginas
...Philadelphia, December I, 1841. * JfLlus CHARLES HARE: see dedication of ysES AT TRUTH, by Two Brothers.' I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his car The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1854 - 630 páginas
...remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there." Wordsworth also ( in his "Excursion," Book IV.— " I have seen A curious child, who dwelt...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed... | |
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I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell ; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for from... 
