...nature originally kind and genial. The Wanderer has great hope in the progress of Man: " I hare seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to bis ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; Towhich, in silence hushed, his vcrysoul Listened...

...moan, as moans the ocean-shell. Such a shell as Wordsworth has beautifully described : — "I have seen A curious child who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell ; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intently, and his countenance...

...read Wordsworth's Excursion, yet, in that most natural poem, we find the same thought. " I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell, To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance...

...moan, as moans the ocean-shell. Such a shell as Wordsworth has beautifully described: — "I have seen A curious child who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell ; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intently, and his countenance...

...of his whelk, of storms at sea, and of the fluxes of the tide ! For, with Wordsworth, I have seen " A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract ' Of inland...ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell ; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intensely, and his countenance...

...inferior Faculty that moulds, With her minute and speculative pains, Opinion, ever changing ! 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...

...murmuring from within Were heard sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor express'd gay mariner's guitar ! Is heard, and seen the evening star ; Then stealing doth impart Authentic tidings of invisible things : Of ebb and flow, and ever .during power ; And central...

...intolerant of that school of critics, who vainly attempted to write and sneer him down. " 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 sold Listened intensely; and his countenance...

...moan, as moans the ocean-shell. Such a"shell as Wordsworth has beautifully described : — "I have seen A curious child who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell ; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listened intently, and his countenance...

...written some worse myself. L. So has Wordsworth. Attend to the echo in the Excursion : " I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell, To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intensely, and his countenance...