 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1854 - 630 páginas
...murmurs as the ocean murmurs there." Wordsworth also ( in his "Excursion," Book IV.— " I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed... | |
 | Meta Lander - 1854 - 364 páginas
...What an indescribable and almost mysterious beauty there is in the following passage : * I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy. For murmurings from, within Were heard, — sonorous cadences, whereby To his belief the monitor expressed... | |
 | Meta Lander - 1854 - 338 páginas
...mysterious beauty there is in the following passage : * I hare seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a iract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy. For murmurings from within Were heard, — sonorous cadences, whereby To his belief the monitor expressed... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1854 - 588 páginas
...Turks style their capital, and retreated with wounded dignity towards his own territories. I HAVE seen A curious child who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground...applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped ehell; To which in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen 'd intently, and his countenance soon Brighten'd... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1921 - 254 páginas
...medium between man and the invisible, just as in a shell, when its opening is placed to the ear, are heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea. In like manner, the soul finds in the sights and sounds of Nature, received by the senses, echoes of... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 páginas
...the deep, I lay me down in peace to sleep. EMMA WILLABD — The Cradle of the Deep. 12 I have seen f the ambitiou eonvolutioas of a smooth-lipped shell; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely;... | |
 | Caroline Miles Hill - 1923 - 890 páginas
...you — you have never been— There is nothing at all but Me." From THE EXCURSION WILLIAM WORDSWORTH A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous cadences ! whereby To his belief, the monitor expressed... | |
 | Herbert Brown - 1923 - 292 páginas
...more intently, as Wordsworth's curious child listened to the smoothlipped shell : " To his belief, the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native...shell the universe itself Is to the ear of faith." July $ist. — A large swarm settled on the thick trunk of an apple tree ; the Bees resent the services... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1923 - 144 páginas
...an happy one: —I have seen A curious Child applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd Shell ; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard, — sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the Monitor expressed... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 páginas
...A tutelar fond voice, a savior tone of love. CHARLES TURNER. FRAGMENTS. THE SEA-SHORE. I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland...universe itself Is to the ear of Faith ; and there are timei, I doubt not, when to you it doth impart Authentic tidings of invisible things ; Of ebb and flow,... | |
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I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell ; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings... 
