| William Wordsworth - 1814 - 476 pages
...; nor did the sick manjs tale, To his fraternal sympathy addressed, Obtain reluctant hearing. Plain his garb Such as might suit a rustic sire, prepared...For sabbath duties ; yet he was a Man Whom no one could have passed without remark. Active and nervous was his gait ; his limbs And his whole figure... | |
| 1815 - 670 pages
...— revisiting the scenes to memory endeared. His person is thus pictureso1ucly delineated. ' Plain his garb, Such as might suit a rustic sire, prepared...For sabbath duties ; yet he was a Man Whom no one could have passed without remark. Active and nervous was his gait; his limbs And his whole figure breathed... | |
| 1838 - 884 pages
...staff Afforded to the figure of the man, Detained for contemplation or repose, Graceful support,'1 &c. And again — and even more characteristically —...For Sabbath duties ; yet he was a man Whom no one could have passed without remark. Active and nervous was his gait ; his limbs And his whole figure... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1819 - 378 pages
...his exterior reminded me very much of some of Wordsworth's descriptions of his Pedlar : — -" plain his garb, Such as might suit a rustic sire, prepared For Sabbath duties ; yet he is a man Whom no one •could have passed without remark. Active and nervous is his gait. His limbs... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1827 - 456 pages
...; nor did the sick man's tale, To his fraternal sympathy address'd, Obtain reluctant hearing. Plain his garb ; Such as might suit a rustic sire, prepared...For sabbath duties ; yet he was a Man Whom no one could have pass'd without remark. Active and nervous was his gait ; his limbs And his whole figure... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1836 - 398 pages
...to the tongue Of garrulous age ; nor did To his fraternal sympathy Obtain reluctant hearing. Plain his garb ; Such as might suit a rustic Sire, prepared...sabbath duties ; yet he was a man • Whom no one could have passed without remark. Active and nervous was his gait ; his limbs And his whole figure... | |
| William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...reclaim her precious things from thee, Restore the Dead, thou Sea ! THE WANDERER.— Wordsworth. Plain his garb ; Such as might suit a rustic Sire, prepared...For Sabbath duties ; yet he was a man Whom no one could have passed without remark. Active and nervous was his gait ; his limbs And his whole figure... | |
| 1838 - 876 pages
...staff Afforded to the figure of the man, Detained for contemplation or repose, Graceful support," &c. And again — and even more characteristically —...For Sabbath duties ; yet he was a man Whom no one could have passed without remark. [Sept. Active and nervous was his gait; his limbs And his whole figure... | |
| John Aikin - 1838 - 796 pages
...; nor did the sick man's tale, To his fraternal sympathy address'd, Obtain reluctant hearing. Plain ad. Dimpling the water glides, with here and there A glossy fly, skimming in circlets could have pass'd without remark. Active and nervous was his gait ; his limbi And his whole figure... | |
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