 Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.  Littell's Living Age - Page 3331892Full view - About this book
 | 1842 - 592 pages
...but the grandeurs of earth and air, that we are fully sensible of what Wordsworth has called — 0 The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. » And there rose the mountains on every side, dark, massive, unending, hemming me into a solitude... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1843 - 278 pages
...was framed, Who, long compelled in humble walks to go, Was softened into feeling, soothed, and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor men lie ; His...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. In him the savage virtue of the race, Revenge and all ferocious thoughts were dead : Nor did he change... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1843 - 342 pages
...to go, Was soften'd into feeling, soothed, and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor men lay ; His daily teachers had been woods and rills; The silence...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills." There was not, there could not be, any sympathy between the fiery and warlike minstrel and his mild... | |
 | 1887 - 890 pages
...heart was haunted by the sounding cataract ; his soul received into herself, in still communion, " The silence that is in the starry sky. The sleep that is among the lonely bills." Nevertheless, although he was the poet of sensations rather than of pictures, Wordsworth comes... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...framed : How he, long forced in humble walks to go, Was softened into feeling, soothed, and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor men lie ; His...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. In him the savage virtue of the Race, Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead : Nor did he change... | |
 | 1845 - 448 pages
...was framed, Who, long compeiled in humble walks to go, Was softened into feeling, soothed and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor men lie ; His...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. In him the savage virtue of the race, Revenge and all ferocious thoughts, were dead; jS'or did he change,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 pages
...into feeling, soothed, and tamed. Love had he found in huta where poor men lie • Hi* daily teachere had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is amone the lonely hills.1* The words themselves in tho foregoing extract* are, no doubt, sufficiently... | |
 | Timothy Flint - 1845 - 266 pages
...incurious nor incompetent observers, their delineations were graphic and vivid. "Their teachers had lieen woods and rills, The silence, that is in the starry sky; The sleep, that is among tht- lonely hilla." They advanced into Kentucky so far, as to fill their imaginations with the fresh... | |
 | Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1845 - 422 pages
...was a hollow pretension on his part, (he, who could not abide Wordsworth,) to declare in favour of The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is between the lonely hills. The sleep in which he really delighted, was anything but lonely ; and, as... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...was framed, Who, long compelled in humble walks to go, Was softened into feeling, soothed, and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor men lie ; His...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. In him the savage virtue of the race, Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead : Nor did he change... | |
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