 | Henry Harbaugh - 1851 - 328 pągines
...everlasting ruin ! CHAPTER IV. !>iltnpDtljt} bitmttn 33mnt unit <fattlj. "I have seen A curious child, that 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 intently; and his countenance... | |
 | John Aikin - 1852 - 792 pągines
...By the inferior faculty that moulds, With her minute and speculative pains, Opinion, ever changing ! horn they stretch an' strive, Deil tak the hindmost,...there that o'er his French ragout, Or olio that would I whereby To his belief, the monitor express'd Mysterious union with its native sea. E'en such a shell... | |
 | 1852 - 302 pągines
...worth a thousand. You may find it in " The Excursion," if I am iiot mistaken : "I hare seen A ourious 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... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1852 - 478 pągines
...of religion, nor the light of life, where faith in that which is above nature is weak or wanting. D 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... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1853 - 666 pągines
...birthplace moan, as moans the ocean-shell. Such a shell as Wordsworth has beautifully described. " 1 have seen A curious child who dwelt upon a tract Of...To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intently, and his countenance soon Brighten'd with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard —... | |
 | H. C. Foster - 1853 - 378 pągines
...In the sublime attractions of the Grave. 1 84 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. THE RESPONSES OF EXTERNAL NATURE. 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... | |
 | George Burrowes - 1853 - 542 pągines
...words of Wordsworth for expressing nobler emotions than they seem to have been intended to embody: "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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1853 - 300 pągines
...Philadelphia, December I, 1841. * JfLlus CHARLES HARE: see dedication of ysES AT TRUTH, by Two Brothers.' 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... | |
 | Henry Harbaugh - 1853 - 314 pągines
...to everlasting ruin ! CHAPTER IV. tottnnu IBunBti unit <0uitlj. " I have seen A curious child, that 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 intently; and his countenance... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - 1854 - 366 pągines
...birthplace moan, as moam the ocean-fltell. Such a shell as Wordsworth has beautifully described — " I have seen A curious child who dwelt upon a tract...To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intently, and his countenance soon Brighten'd with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard —... | |
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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... 
