...* I have seen,' the poet says, and the illustration is an happy one : 1 have seen A curious child, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd...To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intensely, and his countenance soon Brighten'd with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard —...

...By the 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 ground, applying to his car The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell ; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd...

...By the inferior faculty that moulds, With her minute and speculative pains, Opinion, ever changing ! mate to cheer, Pass widow'd nights and joyless days, While Willie's far frae Logan car The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell ; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd...

...many hundred miles.—See HODGSON'S Letters from North America, vol. ip 242. Note 2, page 3, line 11. And for their birthplace moan, as moans the ocean-shell....shell; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Usten'd intently, and his countenance soon Brighten'd with joy ; for murmurings from witlun "Were heard—sonorous...

...steril promontory," and that the universe is hollow without the presence of faith and imagination : " I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...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...

...on a 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...

...undergrowth for many hundred miles. See HODGSON'S Letters from North America, vol. ip 242. NOTE 2. And for their birthplace moan, as moans the ocean-shell....very soul Listen'd intently, and his countenance soon Brighten'd with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard — sonorous cadences! whereby, To his...

...undergrowth for many hundred miles. See HODGSON'S Letters from North America, vol. ip 242. NOTE 2. And for their birthplace moan, as moans the ocean-shell....very soul Listen'd intently, and his countenance soon Brighten'd with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard — sonorous cadences! whereby, To his...

...the sounding 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...To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intensely, and his countenance soon Brighten'd with joy ; for munnurings from within Were heard, —...

...German ever 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...convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell, To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmuriugs...