 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
 | 1836 - 740 pages
...cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock The mountam, and the deep and gloomy wood Their odours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling...remoter charm By thought supplied, or any interest Unhorrowed from the eye. That time Is past. And all its aching loys arc now no more, And all its dizzy... | |
 | Thomas Russell Sullivan, David Reed - 1836 - 352 pages
...no other,—to long for and cleave to well-doing with 'An appetite,—a feeling and a love, That has no need of a remoter charm By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from'—itself! We believe that Christians imperiously need rousing to a perception of the real quality... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 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 Howitt - 1838 - 414 pages
...sought the thing he loved. For nature then, To me was all in all — I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion ;...charm By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed of the eye. — Wordsworth. We should be startled to hear an ancient exclaim, like Shelley : Magnificent... | |
 | 1834 - 602 pages
...I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the dtep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were...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 this... | |
 | 1838 - 876 pages
...cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall roi-k, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Th»ir colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite;...had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye. "That time ispasi, And all its aching joys are now no more,... | |
 | Horace Binney Wallace - 1838 - 274 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...supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye. As he reviews the scene, he says, That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all... | |
 | 1842 - 650 pages
...tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors 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." " I grew up," he continues, " and my wishes grew with my form. These wishes were for the entire possession... | |
 | 1838 - 938 pages
...tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to m* An appetite ; a feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye. " That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more,... | |
 | 1839 - 596 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." Too much praise cannot be awarded to the plastic spirit with which he seizes and adapts the peculiar... | |
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