 COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE EARTH has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers,...  Blake and the City - Pagina 15door Jennifer Davis Michael - 2006 - 235 pagina’sGedeeltelijke weergave - Over dit boek
 | James Hain Friswell - 1869 - 498 pagina’s
...heavens — majestic, free. And also these, on beholding London from Westminster Bridge — Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ; The river glideth...sweet will : Dear God, the very houses seem asleep, And all that mighty heart is lying still. All these lines have indeed, in Wordsworth's own words —... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pagina’s
...not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind. Part \, xxxr. Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep i The river glideth at his own sweet will ; Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still ! part ii. xxxvi. The feather, whence the pen Was shaped... | |
 | Robert Frederick Brewer - 1869 - 110 pagina’s
...steep, In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep I The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep, And all that mighty heart is lying still. PHILIPS' EDUCATIONAL CATALOGUE, Philips' Comprehensive School... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pagina’s
...affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind. LONDON AT SUNRISE. Earth has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he...sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still. ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC. Once did she... | |
 | Samuel Palmer - 1870 - 344 pagina’s
...portion of this extraordinary scene in one of his finest sonnets : — . ' Earth has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could...sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still ! ' The freedom from interruption — the perfect loneliness... | |
 | J. Douglas Kneale - 1999 - 250 pagina’s
...before so beautiful" recalls a similar claim made for the sun in the sonnet on "Westminster Bridge": Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first...sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! (PW 3: 38) In this epitaphic celebration of the city, as... | |
 | Philip Gaskell - 1999 - 188 pagina’s
...air. Never did sun more beautifully steep 1n his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw 1, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his...all that mighty heart is lying still! (Wordsworth) Finally on this subject. it is a useful exercise to describe and scan a stanza of MasefielcTs "Cargoes":... | |
 | Paula R. Feldman, Daniel Robinson - 2002 - 302 pagina’s
...bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a...sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! (1807) 212. 'Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne' Methought... | |
 | Nahdjla Carasco Bailey - 2014 - 132 pagina’s
...silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the lie Ids, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never...sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (A) a busy one. (C) a moonlit one. (B)... | |
 | Stephen Herbert - 2000 - 556 pagina’s
...first splendour valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river elidetti at his own sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still !" The freedom from interruption — the perfect loneliness... | |
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