 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 322 pagina’s
...the wide world over : — " He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own. He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noonday...impulses of deeper birth Have come to him in solitude." Wordsworth has heen fortunate in the cordial communion with Coleridge and Southey and Lamb, and in... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 312 pagina’s
...the wide world over:— " He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own. He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noonday...impulses of deeper birth Have come to him in solitude." Wordsworth Las been fortunate in the cordial communion with Coleridge and Southey and Lamb, and in... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1860 - 624 pagina’s
...against the high closed gate. Wordsworth in describing a poet has described a reserved man : " He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noonday...impulses of deeper birth Have come to him in solitude." But how, cries the hasty reader, can a poet be reserved ? Is it not the business of his life to proclaim... | |
 | Sir Lawrence Peel - 1860 - 334 pagina’s
...nor to those who, by their advances, would force it to expand. It never courts a confidence. "He is retired as noon-tide dew, ( Or fountain in a noon-day...ere to you He will seem worthy of your love." The life of a public man is before the public, his manners are open to the public scrutiny; but all this... | |
 | 1860 - 874 pagina’s
...clad In homely russet brown f He mummrs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own. "He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noonday...must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your iove. ••The outward shows of sky and earth, Of hill and valley, ho has viewed; And Impulses of... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1902 - 884 pagina’s
...form to stately height. making people fat, but never of delight making ladies tall 1 A POET'S EPITAPH. In common things that round us lie Some random truths he can impart, The harvest of a quiet eye That broodt and sleeps on his orcn Much praised and quoted, but nor.hcart. sense nevertheless. TO JOANNA.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1902 - 896 pagina’s
...form to stately height. making people fat, but never of delight making ladies tall I A POET'S EPITAPH. In common things that round us lie Some random truths he can impart, The harvest of a quiet eye Tliat brood* and tlerpt on Mt orrn 'Much praised and quoted, but nonpar*, sense nevertheless. TO JOANNA.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1910 - 914 pagina’s
...controvert. The logic is so exact, the emotion so restrained! The frame of mind in which Wordsworth wrote ' and you must love him ere to you he will seem worthy of your love ' seems alien to this just and kindly judge. He would say that it would be foolish to bestow your love,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 pagina’s
...— bat there the intercourse ends. "He is retired as noontide dew, Or snow within a summer's groTe; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love." But all this is changed when the poet becomes an improvisatore — when the company is assembled, a... | |
 | 1862 - 600 pagina’s
...author. For what Wordsworth says of the poet applies with at least equal force to the philosopher: 'You must love him, ere to you he will seem worthy of your love.' And Dr. Whewell is not in the fullest sense a lover of Plato. Either his mind has not been cast in... | |
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He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love. 
