 I have seen A curious Child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped Shell ; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings...  An Excursion Among the Poets - Page 84edited by - 1853 - 360 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Meta Lander - 1854 - 338 pages
...mysterious beauty there is in the following passage : * I hare seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a iract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions...monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea. Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of faith ; and there are times, I doubt not, when... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1854 - 588 pages
...Felicity," as the Turks style their capital, and retreated with wounded dignity towards his own territories. I HAVE seen A curious child who dwelt upon a tract...applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped ehell; To which in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen 'd intently, and his countenance soon Brighten'd... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - 1854 - 366 pages
...birthplace moan, as moam the ocean-fltell. Such a shell as Wordsworth has beautifully described — " I have seen A curious child who dwelt upon a tract...ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell ; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intently, and his countenance... | |
 | Meta Lander - 1854 - 340 pages
...life again. " What an indescribable and almost mysterious beauty there is in the following passage : ' I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of at smooth- lipped shell, To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely; and his countenance'... | |
 | 1918 - 934 pages
..."Excursion" when I think of the true attitude to the slowly evolving history of man. "I have seen [he says] A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed •L'fysterious union with its native... | |
 | Robert Crookall - 1969 - 204 pages
...smiling upon me * See pp. 54, 104. t Compare Wordsworth, who said : "I have seen A curious child . . . applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell, To which, in silence hushed, liix very Soul Listened intensely; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for from within were... | |
 | Mary Caroline Richards - 1989 - 196 pages
...Excursion" William Wordsworth has written a passage which suggests the magnitude of our listening power : I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.... | |
 | David P. Haney - 2010 - 289 pages
..."authentic tidings of invisible things" as the child, committing an empirical "error" listens to a shell: I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy, for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.... | |
 | Donna Farhi - 1996 - 260 pages
...your own homecoming. May each breath be like a footstep bringing you back to the home of yourself. I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with it's native... | |
 | Alison Hickey - 1997 - 268 pages
...through the temporality of writing) to mediate between self and other, as in this example from book 4: I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.... | |
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