| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 384 pągines
...» — — " I have seen A curious child, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth -lipp'd shell, To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul...and his countenance soon Brighten'd with joy ; for murmuring from within "Were heard sonorous cadences 1 whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1836 - 398 pągines
...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-lipped shell ; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1836 - 472 pągines
...To which, in pil'cnce hushed, hie very soul Listened intently, and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard —...sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea. —Even such n shell the universe itself I» to the... | |
| Walter Savage Landor - 1836 - 46 pągines
...To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea. Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1837 - 602 pągines
...abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.' The passage from ' The Excursion ' is this— 1 1 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... | |
| John Aikin - 1838 - 750 pągines
...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...soul Listen'd intensely; and his countenance soon Brighten' d with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard,—sonorous cadences ! whereby To his... | |
| John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 752 pągines
...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... | |
| John Aikin - 1838 - 796 pągines
...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... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1839 - 362 pągines
...birthplace 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...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... | |
| 1839 - 538 pągines
...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... | |
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