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" For nature then (The coarser 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 Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep... "
The Pilgrims' Way: A Little Scrip of Good Counsel for Travellers - Page 148
by Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1907 - 329 pages
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English Literature of the Nineteenth Century: On the Plan of the Author's ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 pages
...their glad animal movements all gone hy) To me was all in all — I caunot paint What then I was. i The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion ;...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...
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Introduction to English literature, from Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 pages
...he wandered over theearth. "The sounding cataract Haunted (Mm) like a passion : the tall rock, Tin' 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 remoter charm, By thought supplied,...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1858 - 550 pages
...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 movements all gone...; the tall rock, / The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, J Their colours and their forms, were then to me J Au appetite : a feeling and a love,...
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the poetical works of william wordsworth

WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pages
...falsely pronounced to be impossible to be continuous, as Wordsworth proves himself, when he says : " The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion ;...were then to me An appetite, a feeling, and a love." But, in addition to this, Wordsworth's was a metaphysical as well as an imaginative mind, and the two...
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The Elements of the English Language

Ernest Adams - 1858 - 200 pages
...entire participial sentence is thus placed absolutely : , For Nature then, [The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements, all gone by], To me was all in all. — Wordsworth. And on he moves to meet his latter end, [Angels around befriending Virtue's friend]....
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Russell's Magazine, Volume 2

Paul Hamilton Payne - 1858 - 584 pages
...enjoyment it expires" Take the following lines, from the poem composed near Tintern Abbey : 1 Nature then To me was all in all. I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cata ract Haunted me like a pastion; the tnll rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their...
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Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic

Anne Williams - 2009 - 325 pages
...Radcliffe mode; he also uses Gothic diction in Tintern Abbey to describe his early relationship with nature ("The sounding cataract / Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, / The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, / . . . were then to me / An appetite. . . . [11. 76-80]). Coleridge's reviews are reprinted...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...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 movements all gone by) To me was all in all. — 1 cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock,...
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Wordsworth and Feeling: The Poetry of an Adult Child

G. Kim Blank - 1995 - 284 pages
...are the most important and perhaps the most confusing: For nature then (The coarser pleasure 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 Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock,...
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Imprints & Re-visions: The Making of the Literary Text, 1759-1818

Peter Hughes, Robert Rehder - 1996 - 258 pages
...coloured by the cloudless moon. (Was It For This, 127-31) As in the beautiful lines of Tintern Abbey — The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the...colours and their forms were then to me An appetite ... (11.77-81) - Wordsworth looks back to a period when landscape had been experienced in and for itself:...
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