...specimens taken with little choice. The first from the lines on the BOY or WINANBER-MERE,* — who " Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls, That they...would shout Across the watery vale, and shout again, With long halloos, and screams, and echoes loud Redoubled and redoubled ; concourse wild Of mirth and...

...struggling to be free." I make but one other selection, taken from Wordsworth's Boy of Winander Mere : "Who Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls, That they...answer him. And they would shout Across the watery yale, and shout again With long halloos, and screams, and echoes loud, Redoubled and redoubled, concourse...

...interwoven, both hands Pressed closely palm to palm, and to his mouth Uplifted, he, as through an instrument, Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls, That they...redoubled ; concourse wild Of mirth and jocund din : and when it chanced That pauses of deep silence mocked his skill, Then sometimes, in that silence...

...interwoven, both hands Pressed closely palm to palm, and to his mouth Uplifted, he, as through an instrument, Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls, That they...redoubled ; concourse wild Of mirth and jocund din : and when it chanced That pauses of deep silence mocked his skill, Then sometimes, in that silence...

...descriptions, as taken immediately from Nature.— Blo9. Lit. t Written at Ooslar in Germany, 1799. That they might answer him. — And they would shout...echoes loud Redoubled and redoubled ; concourse wild Of jocund din ! And, when there came a pause Of silence such as baffled his best skill : * Then, sometimes,...

...delighted O with this screaming of the owl. Wordsworth's fine passage descriptive of the boy who " blew mimic hootings to the silent owls, that they might answer him," and of the mirth that followed, will be readily recalled. Another of these abusive epithets is " gray."...

...his mouth, and shout aloud, mimicking the hooting of the owls, who would answer him " with qnivering peals, And long halloos and screams, and echoes loud Redoubled and redoubled." When they failed to answer him, and he hung listening intently for their voices, he would sometimes...

...interwoven, both hands Press'd closely palm to palm and to his mouth Uplifted, he, as through an instrument, Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls, That they...redoubled ; concourse wild Of mirth and jocund din ! And, when it chanced That pauses of deep silence mock'd his skill, Then, sometimes, in that silence,...

...both hands Press'd closely palm to palm and to his mouth Uplifted, ho, as through an instrument, Blow mimic hootings to the silent owls, That they might...redoubled ; concourse wild Of mirth and jocund din ! And, when it chanced That pauses of deep silence mock'd his skill, Then, sometimes, in that silence,...

...first from the lines on the Boy OP WINANDER-MERE,* — who " Blew mimic hootingg to the silent OWIs, That they might answer him. — And they would shout Across the watery vale, and ehout again, With long halloos, and screams, and echoes lond Redoubled and redoubled ; concourse wild...