...where by his fire The Hermit site alone. Though absent long These forms of beauty have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye : But oft in...tranquil restoration : — feelings too Of unremembered pleasures ; such perhaps, As may have had no trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's...

...draw out the better part of our nature, and humanise the entire character — " Passing even into the purer mind With tranquil restoration, feelings, too,...unremembered pleasure ; such, perhaps, As have no slight and trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life — His little, nameless, unremembered...

...where by his fire The hermit sits alone. Though absent long, These forms of beauty have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye : But oft,...feelings too Of unremembered pleasure ; such, perhaps, As may have had no trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless,...

...his fire The Hermit sits alone. These beauteous forms, Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye : But oft in...mind, With tranquil restoration : — feelings too Of unremember'd pleasure : such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion...

...hermit fits alone. Thefe beauteous forms, Through a long abfence, have not been to me As is a landfcape to a blind man's eye : But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, have I owed to them, In hours of wearinefs, fenfations fweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the...

...stimulation as convincing as "Tintern Abbey's" description of the chaster pleasures of landscape viewing: "sensations sweet, / Felt in the blood, and felt along...into my purer mind, / With tranquil restoration." But he goes no further here: the lines continue, "Ere we retired . . . the sky was bright with day."...

...Resources. 10 9876543 Five years have passed; five summers with the length Of five long winters. And . . . Oft in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, . . . Sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart Wordsworth, Tintern Ahhey Preface...

...or by one's being isolated "in lonely rooms." The restorative effect of image remembered is Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration. One observes in these words at least a faint echo of the Medieval understanding of the harmony of soul...

...memorializes "certain private and intensely subjective moments of imaginative insight which he has known 'oft, in lonely rooms, and mid the din of towns and cities.' "23 But if the romantic imagination took flight from the world not just of rational thought but also...

...forms, Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye: But oh, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities,...even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration. (23-30) A great deal depends on whether the speaker can still see those beauteous forms as worthy of...