| 1851 - 1220 pages
...a significant fact in the following dopcription of retribution taking place in a poetic soul : — "And when the deed was done, I heard among the solitary...hills Low breathings coming after me, and sounds Of iinrlistimjuishnMe motion, steps Almost as silent as the turf they trod." Those " low breathings,"... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1854 - 432 pages
...dwelt among them. Sometimes it befell, In these night wanderings, that a strong desire O'erpowered my better reason, and the bird Which was the captive...hills Low breathings coming after me, and sounds Of undistinguisliable motion, steps Almost as silent as the turf they trod. Nor less, when Spring had... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1859 - 432 pages
...befell, In these night wanderings, that a strong desire \ O'erpowered my better reason, and the bird i Which was the captive of another's toil 'Became my...the solitary hills Low breathings coming after me, and'jjounds/ Of undistinguishable motionj steps Almost as silent as the turf they trod. Nor less, when... | |
| Henry Allon - 1850 - 632 pages
...That dwelt among them. Sometimes it befel In these night wanderings that a strong desire O'erpowered my better reason, and the bird Which was the captive...solitary hills Low breathings coming after me, and sounda Of undistinguishable motion, steps Almost as silent as the turf they trod ' The whole of the... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1871 - 630 pages
...In these night wanderings, that a strong desire O'erpowcrcd my better reason, and the bird WJiif-Ь was the captive of another's toil Became my prey ;...hills Low breathings coming after me, and sounds Of undistinRiushablc motion, steps Almost as silent as the turf they trod. Nor less when spring had warmed... | |
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 pages
...it hefel In these night wanderings, that a strong desire O'erpowered my hetter reason, and the hird Which was the captive of another's toil Became my...deed was done I heard among the solitary hills Low hreathings coming after me, and sounds Of undistinguishahle motion, steps Almost as silent as the turf... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - 1880 - 738 pages
...reason, and the bird Which was the captive of another's toil Became my prey ; and when the deed was dono I heard among the solitary hills Low breathings coming after me, and sounds ' Of undistinguishablc motion, steps Q^-f^^t^^^-<^'Almost as silent as the turf they trod. Nor less when... | |
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1882 - 642 pages
...it hefel In these night wanderings, that a strong desire O'erpowered my hetter reason, and the hird Which was the captive of another's toil Became my...the deed was done I heard among the solitary hills Lmv hreathings coming alter me, and sounds Of undistingmshahle motion, steps Almost as silent as the... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1889 - 1016 pages
...That dwelt among them. Sometimes it befell In these night wanderings, that a strong desire O'erpowered my better reason, and the bird Which was the captive...heard among the solitary hills Low breathings coming afterme, and sounds Of undistinguishable motion, steps Almost as silent as the turf they trod. Nor... | |
| William Angus Knight - 1889 - 394 pages
...is when in the night he had thoughtlessly taken, as he tells us, ' the captive of another's toil.' When the deed was done I heard among the solitary hills Low breathings coining after me, and sounds Of undistingHlshablc motion, steps Almost as silent as the turf they trod.... | |
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