 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 charm, By thought supplied, nor...  The Living Age - Page 971912Full view - About this book
 | 1842 - 620 pages
...in the mind of the young enthusiast desert him in maturer years. "The sounding cataract Haunted him, like a passion ; the tall rock, The mountain, and...gloomy wood. Their colors and their forms, were then to him An appetite ; a feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 426 pages
...him speak of himself in his early days : " I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract X 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." Tintern Abbey. Let him... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 612 pages
...days And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all. I cannot paint What I then was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion;...colors and their forms were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed... | |
 | 1843 - 602 pages
...days And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all. I cannot paint What I then was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion;...colors and their forms were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest i... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1843 - 278 pages
...pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements, all gone by) To me was all in all. — I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract...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... | |
 | 1843 - 592 pages
...things ; he could realize beauty in all the works of creation. " the sounding cataract Haunted him like a passion ; the 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 of a... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 612 pages
...days And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all. I cannot paint What I then was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, anil the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their forms were then to me An appetite ; a feeling... | |
 | 1844 - 1128 pages
...music, in which he descants on his early predilections : — " For nature then To me was all in all. I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...coarser pleasures of my boyish days And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all — st Tu gulden climes and islands of the blest; And...the waves in songs of gladness there! Chosen of men colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...boyish days . And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all — I cannot paint \Vhat esent and confest, Stamp but their bolder features...; Yet not an image, when remotely viewed, However colours and their fonns, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter... | |
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