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" Ah! Then, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw, and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile Amid a world how different from... "
Essays on English writers, by the author of 'The gentle life'. - Page 241
by James Hain Friswell - 1869
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 169

1889 - 614 pages
...working upon the passive impression blended thought and matter, produced the new creation, and added ' the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream.' But this creative work of the imagination is only possible j when the relations of Nature with man...
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Poems in 2 Vols., Reprinted Original Ed. of 1807 Ed. with Note on ..., Volume 2

William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pages
...gentle Things. Ah ! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ! Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea...
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Poems, in Two Volumes,

William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 pages
...gentle Things. 141 Ah! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ! Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea...
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Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the ...

William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...Things. VOL. II. z Ah ! THEM, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ! Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...VOL. II. Z 337 Ah ! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ' Amid a world how different from this } Beside a sea...
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Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 pages
...being. It were difficult to name any thing else of human workmanship so thoroughly transfigured with "the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream." The celestial and the earthly are here so commingled, — commingled, but not confounded, — that...
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Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary ..., Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 326 pages
...at once an instance and an illustration, he does indeed to all thoughts and to all objects — -add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream." 172 I shall select a few examples as most obviously manifesting this faculty ; but if I should ever...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 3

William Wordsworth - 1832 - 378 pages
...gentle Tilings. Ah ! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ! Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea...
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Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary ..., Volumes 1-2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1834 - 360 pages
...once an instance and an illustration, he does indeed to all thoughts and to all objects — " ' ' add the gleam. The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream." I shall select a few examples as most obviously manifesting this faculty ; but if I should ever be...
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Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad: With Tales and ..., Volumes 3-4

Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1834 - 632 pages
...cloud or vapours ; — but it is something more than these, something beyond, and over all — . . The gleam, The light that never was on sea or land The consecration, and the poet's dream ! Genoa, 30. We arrived here late, and I should not write now, weary, weak, sick, and down-spirited...
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