I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter... Proceedings of the Canadian Institute - Page 387by Canadian Institute - 1884Full view - About this book
| Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 pages
...original, that the redder may judge if we are correct, especially as the poem is not very well known. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion :...feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter charm, &c. Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads, Vol. I. p. Iwi. CHIT. Rsv. VOL. IV. Nov. 1816. 3 T " Now, where the... | |
| 1816 - 692 pages
...passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood Their colours and their form?, were then to me An appetite: a feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter charm, Sic. CHIT. RKV. VOL. IV. Nov. 1816. 3 T Wordsworth's Lyrical Baitai.lt, Vol. I. p. 195. \ Though in... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1820 - 378 pages
...thought, sentiment, and almost of action ; or, as it will be found expressed, of a state of mind when " the sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion :...supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye" — * These Poems are now printed entire. I will own that I was much at a loss what to select of these... | |
| British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...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 ;...supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye. — That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1820 - 372 pages
...cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, v 4 The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours...supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye. — That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for... | |
| 1820 - 490 pages
...works are in themselves "an appetite, a feeling, and a love," and who finds, in their contemplation, " no need of a remoter charm, by thought supplied, or any interest imborrowed from the eye." Every gentle swelling of tho ground — every gleam of the water — every... | |
| 1838 - 1014 pages
...and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms,,werc then to me An apperite, a feeling, and a lo«. That had no need of a remoter charm By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrow'd of the eye." WORDSWORTH. To quote all that bears evidence of this wonderful revolution in... | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1823 - 586 pages
...tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to him An appetite ; a feeling, and a love, That had no need...supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye*." And where does he now exist ? Is this gentle and lovely being lost for ever ? Has this mind so replete... | |
| 1823 - 592 pages
...passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forma were then to me An appetite, a feeling, and a love,...remoter charm By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrow'd from the eye." So the forms of nature, or the human form divine, stood before the great... | |
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