 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
 | 1850 - 1254 pages
...the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were there to me An appetite ; a feeling aud a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought...supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye.' His soul was full of lofty and imaginative conceptions of moral truths. He, therefore, after severe... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1851 - 394 pages
...sweetens pain. A fine poet thus describes the effect of the sight of nature on his mind: — — — " The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion :...remoter charm By thought supplied, or any interest Unhorrow'd from the eye." So the forms of nature, or the human form divine, stood before the great... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pages
...Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling...supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye. That time is past, And all its ach'ing joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 750 pages
...mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, * These Poems are now printed entire. Their colours and their forma were then to me An appetite, a feeling, and a love,...supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye." — I will own that I was much at a loss what to select of these descriptions ; and perhaps it would... | |
 | Ira Livingston - 1997 - 276 pages
...^A'd iheirgjad animal movements all gnne by) _j To me was all in all - I cannot paml Whal ihen 1 was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the...had no need of a remoter charm. By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from thc_eve. --That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more.... | |
 | R. L. Brett - 1997 - 280 pages
...visit. Instead it contrasts two attitudes to nature. On his earlier visit the appearances of nature were then to me An appetite: a feeling and a love,...had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied. This has been replaced with a more mature response in which he has learned To look on nature, not as... | |
 | Regina Hewitt - 1997 - 254 pages
...years previously, he had no theoretical perspective on the environment; he approached it simply with "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" (ll. 80-83). After leaving the country to live '"mid the... | |
 | Marshall Brown - 1997 - 372 pages
...dream, and imagination. Through it Wordsworth passes beyond the mechanistic and empiricist psychology of "An appetite: a feeling and a love, / That had no need of ... any interest, / Unborrowed from the eye," toward the revived humanism of the active mind. In the... | |
 | Kenneth R. Johnston - 1998 - 1018 pages
...paint / What then I was" — but then proceeds to do just that, in highly charged erotic language: The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the...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. (77-86;... | |
 | Klaus P. Mortensen - 1998 - 208 pages
...identity not being divorced from nature he was therefore not yet a self. I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion, the...had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.32 (PWIIp.261 11.75-83) This description of the poet five... | |
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