 | Mrs. Hemans - 1828 - 228 pàgines
...birth-place moan, as moani the (man-shell, Such a shell as Wordsworth has beautifully described. " I have seen A curious child who dwelt upon a tract...ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a srnooth*iipp'd shell ; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intently, and his countenance... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1828 - 228 pàgines
...birth-place 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, applj mg lo his ear The convolutions of a smoolh-lipp'd shell ; To which, in silence hush'd, his very... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 pàgines
...Faculty that moulds. With her minute and speculative pains. Opinion, ever changing ! — I have seea A curious Child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying Co his ear The convolution!; of a smooth-lipped Shell, To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1830 - 612 pàgines
...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...soul Listen'd intensely, and his countenance soon Brighten' d with joy ; for munmirings from within Were heard, — sonorous cadences whereby, To his... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - 1831 - 510 pàgines
...hirth-place moan, as moans the ocean-shell. Such a shell as Wordsworth has beautifully deKribei I have Km A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to hia ear The convolutions of a imooth-lippetl shell ; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1833 - 388 pàgines
...Excursion " of Wordsworth occurs the following exquisite passage : — . " I have seen A curious child, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd...and his countenance soon Brighten'd with joy ; for murmuring from within Were heard sonorous cadences! whereby, To his belief, the monitor express'd Mysterious... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 382 pàgines
...Wordsworth occurs the following exquisite passage : — *— • — " I have seen A curious child, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd...and his countenance soon Brighten'd with joy ; for murmuring from within Were heard sonorous cadences! whereby, To his belief, the monitor express'd Mysterious... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1834 - 380 pàgines
..." of Wordsworth occurs the following exquisite passage: — • -— " I have seen A curious child, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell, To which, in silence hush VI, his very soul Listened intensely, and his countenance soon Brighten'd with joy ; for murmuring... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1834 - 512 pàgines
...ocean-shell. Such a shell as Wordsworth has beautifully described. I have eeen A curious chilil, who dwell upon a tract Of Inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell ; To which, in eilence hushed, hie very soul Listened intently, and hi« countenance... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, James Handasyd Perkins - 1836 - 740 pàgines
...the proof. In this last point, as in those which precede, Genius stands before us a willing witness. 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 intently; and his countenance... | |
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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 from... 
