 | 1894 - 576 pagina’s
...: — ' For I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh...grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And 1 have felt A presence which disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts ; a sense sublime Of something... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1824 - 586 pagina’s
...peculiar cast, but it is the mind of a poet, and of one who has learned ' To look on nature — hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue , a mind, which has known the 'joy of elevated thoughts,' and felt ' A sense... | |
 | 1823 - 450 pagina’s
...For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftcntimei The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten atfd subdue. WORDSWORTH. IN a former paper we stated a few particulars respecting an excursion... | |
 | 1825 - 500 pagina’s
...not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of bumanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt Jt presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts ; a sense sublime Of something far more... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pagina’s
...I hare Irarard To look on nature, not as in the hoar Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing -oftratime* The still, sad music of humanity. Nor harsh nor grating,...though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have frit A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts ; a sense sublime Of something far... | |
 | 1834 - 864 pagina’s
...recompense. For I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity, Nor harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. . . Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains... | |
 | Horace Binney Wallace - 1838 - 274 pagina’s
...recompense : and he goes on to recount the graver instruction which the landscape gives since he can hear The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh, nor grating,...though of ample power To chasten and subdue ; and can recognize In nature and the language of the sense, The anchor of his purest thoughts, the nurse,... | |
 | Margaret Coxe - 1839 - 364 pagina’s
...beauties we learn " To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but to hear oft-times, The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue." " Wordsworth," says one of his reviewers, " will be read in the better days... | |
 | 1840 - 748 pagina’s
...conjectural an interest more akin to flesh and blood ; and amid all these intricate harmonies he can catch oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue ! Something of this may be due to the corrective influences of habits of parochial... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 572 pagina’s
...recompence. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample'power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated... | |
| |
For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. 
