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" I cannot paint What then I was. 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... "
Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose - Page 417
1910
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 52

1834 - 864 pages
...boyish days, And their glad animal movements, all gone by) To me was all in all. I cannot paint \Vhat then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like...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 from the eye....
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The Moral and Intellectual School Book: Containing Instructions for Reading ...

William Martin - 1838 - 368 pages
...mountains, by the sides Of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, Wherever nature led : more like a man Flying from something that he dreads, than one Who...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 from the eye. —...
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The Rural Life of England, Volume 2

William Howitt - 1838 - 414 pages
...man Flying from something that he dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then, To me was all in all — I cannot paint What then...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 of the eye. —...
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Selections from the British Poets, Volume 2

1840 - 368 pages
...mountains, by the sides Of the deep rivers and the lonely streams, Wherever Nature led : more like a man Flying from something that he dreads, than one Who...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 Unborrow'd from the eye....
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

John Wilson - 1842 - 414 pages
...feeling. A poet he was born, and a poet he will die. Let him speak of himself in his early days : " I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract...were then to me An appetite : a feeling, and a love." Tintern Abbey. Let him exhibit himself at a later period : " Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of T. Noon Talfourd

Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1842 - 412 pages
...boyish days 13* To me was all in all.—I cannot paint And their glad animal movements, all gone by) What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me...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 Unborrow'd from the eye. That...
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Select Pieces from the Poems of William Wordsworth

William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1843 - 278 pages
...mountains, by the sides Of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, Wherever nature led, — more like a man Flying from something that he dreads, than one Who...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 from the eye....
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...mountains, by the sides Of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, Wherever nature led : more like a man relate. 0<le to Liberty. Who shall awake the Spartan fife, And That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye....
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The Student: a magazine of theology, literature, and science

1844 - 1128 pages
...magnificent strain of 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....were then to me An appetite, a feeling, and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm." It is generally supposed that the lyrics of Moore are (with the...
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The Poets and Poetry of England, in the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...thing he loved. For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad varied moments all gone by) To me was all in all. I cannot paint...were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrow'd from the eye....
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