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" Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie... "
Three Hundred English Sonnets - Page 136
edited by - 1886 - 320 pages
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Poems,: In Two Volumes,

William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pages
...me droop again. 13. COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, Sept. 3, 1803. Earth has not any thing to shew more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in it's majesty : This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 50

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 590 pages
...great poet's ' Sonnet composed on Westminsterbridge' will recur to every reader's remembrance. 1 Earth has not anything to show more fair. Dull would he...theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky . . . The river glideth at his own sweet will . . . And all that mighty heart is lying still....
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Laura; or, An anthology of sonnets ... and elegiac quatorzains ..., Volume 4

Capel Lofft - 1813 - 270 pages
...LONDON. BY THE SAME. COMPCS'D UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE HI SEPT. MDCCCIII. EARTH has not any thin;; to shew more fair*, Dull would he be of Soul who could pass by A i.ight '.xi touching in its majesty. This tl'I'V now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the Morning...
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The Lady's Magazine and Museum, Volume 11

1837 - 540 pages
...more deeply than I did at the hour, of which I am now writing : ' Silent, bare Ships, towers, domrs, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and...the sky ! All bright and glittering in the smokeless air ;' — and then, when I came to the two last lines, my eyes filled with tears, and my voice faltered,...
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The Inspector, and Literary Review, Volume 1

1826 - 396 pages
...that too often lie too deep for tears." SONNET COMPOSED ON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. A sight so touching m its majesty : This city now doth like a garment wear...the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully sleep In his first splendour valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The...
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The Literary magnet of the belles lettres, science, and the ..., Volumes 1-2

Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1826 - 550 pages
...me at thy farewell, joyous bark ! COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. Earth has not any thing to shew more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, This city now doth like a garment wear Ships, towers, domes,...
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Sacred poetry: consisting of selections from the works of the most admired ...

Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 858 pages
...[WORDSWORTH.] EARTH has not any thing to shew more fair. Dull would he he of soul who could pass hy A sight so touching in its majesty. This city now doth like a garment wear The heauty of the morning- silent, hare Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto...
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Poetic gems: partly original; but chiefly selected from the best authors: by ...

Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...Roman peasants build their huts Or on the ruins of the Capitol. j. Montgomery. LONDON AT SUNRISE. EARTH has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by This city now doth like a garment wear A sight so touching in its majesty: The beauty...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 50

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1834 - 600 pages
...great poet's ' Sonnet composed on Westmiuslerbridge' will recur to every reader's remembrance. ' Earth has not anything to show more fair. Dull would he...theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky . . . The river glideth at his own sweet will . . . And all that mighty heart is lying still....
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The Landscape Album; Or, Great Britain Illustrated ...

Thomas Moule - 1834 - 382 pages
...has been well described by Mr. Wordsworth in the following sonnet. Earth has not any thing to shew more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : The city now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning ; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes,...
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