 | William Wordsworth - 1858 - 550 pages
...than one Who sought the thing he loved. For Nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was...; the tall rock, / The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, J Their colours and their forms, were then to me J Au appetite : a feeling and a love,... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pages
...falsely pronounced to be impossible to be continuous, as Wordsworth proves himself, when he says : " The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion ;...were then to me An appetite, a feeling, and a love." But, in addition to this, Wordsworth's was a metaphysical as well as an imaginative mind, and the two... | |
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - 1858 - 584 pages
...enjoyment it expires" Take the following lines, from the poem composed near Tintern Abbey : 1 Nature then To me was all in all. I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cata ract Haunted me like a pastion; the tnll rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their... | |
 | Ernest Adams - 1858 - 200 pages
...sentence is thus placed absolutely : , For Nature then, [The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements, all gone by], To me was all in all. — Wordsworth. And on he moves to meet his latter end, [Angels around befriending Virtue's friend].... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1860 - 164 pages
...than one Who sought the thing lie loved. For Nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, Ami their glad animal movements, all gone by,) To me was...then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a pnssion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms,... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...than one Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was...wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to ma An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor... | |
 | Anne Williams - 2009 - 325 pages
...Radcliffe mode; he also uses Gothic diction in Tintern Abbey to describe his early relationship with nature ("The sounding cataract / Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, / The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, / . . . were then to me / An appetite. . . . [11. 76-80]). Coleridge's reviews are reprinted... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...than one Who sought the thing he loved, For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days. And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all. — 1 cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock,... | |
 | G. Kim Blank - 1995 - 284 pages
...important and perhaps the most confusing: For nature then (The coarser pleasure of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by,) To me was all in all.—I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock,... | |
 | Peter Hughes, Robert Rehder - 1996 - 258 pages
...coloured by the cloudless moon. (Was It For This, 127-31) As in the beautiful lines of Tintern Abbey — The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the...colours and their forms were then to me An appetite ... (11.77-81) - Wordsworth looks back to a period when landscape had been experienced in and for itself:... | |
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For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all. — I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep... 
