 The sounding cataract 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 and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor...  Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature ... - Page 41by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes - 1905Full view - About this book
 | Sir James Stephen, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1848 - 356 pages
...then (The coarser pleasures of my boyith days And their glad animal movements, alt gone by) To me wan all in all — I cannot paint What then I was. The...passion : the tall rock. The mountain, and the deep and (loomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite : a ferling and a love, That... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1848 - 358 pages
...of the progress of his sympathy with the external world : — "Nature then (The coarser pleasure!! of my boyish days And their glad animal movements,...To me was all in all — I cannot paint What then 1 was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 pages
...led : more like a man Flying from something that he dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movement» all gone by) To me was all in all. — I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - 1849 - 322 pages
...philosophy. Having reverted to his first visit to the Wye, which was in his early youth, he proceeds : — c Nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days. And their glad auimal movements, all gone by) To me was all in all. I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract... | |
 | 1850 - 1254 pages
...tremulously alive to the charms of inanimate nature. -The sounding cataract Haunted me like n passion : i ho tall rock, The mountain, and 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,... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pages
...as early as 1 798, on the banks of the Wye, while he w as visiting the ruins of Tintern Abbey : — "Nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days,...The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their firms, were then to me An appetite : a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pages
...dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then— The coarser pleasures of my joyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by...The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter... | |
 | 1851 - 790 pages
...He recalls the first ardours of his youth, when the beautiful object itself of nature seemed to him all in all : — " I cannot paint What then I was....passion; the tall rock, The mountain and the deep and gloomy wood. Theircolours and their forms were thus to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love That had... | |
 | 1851 - 776 pages
...nature seemed to him all in all :— " I caunot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Hannted me like a passion ; the tall rock, The mountain, and...and gloomy wood. Their colours and their forms were thns to me An appetite; a feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter charm By thought supplied,... | |
 | 1851 - 792 pages
...the beantiful object when the beautiful itself of nature seemed to him all in all : — " I caunot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted...like a passion ; the tall rock, The mountain, and the dctp and gloom/ wood. Their colours and their forms were thus to me An appetite; a feeling and a love... | |
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