 | 1830 - 596 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...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, —... | |
 | George Washington Bethune - 1840 - 64 pàgines
...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1841 - 400 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1842 - 372 pàgines
...America, vol. ip 242. NOTE 2. And for their birthplace moan, as moans the ocean-shell. Such a"shell as Wordsworth has beautifully described : — "I have...shell ; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listened intently, and his countenance soon Brighten'd with joy; for murmurings from within Were heard... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1855 - 584 pàgines
...the most intolerant of that school of critics, who vainly attempted to write and sneer him down. " 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 sold Listened intensely; and his countenance... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pàgines
...Wordsworth occurs the following exquisite passage : — " I have seen A curious child, applying to his enr lans. Sod. It will be diffi intensely, and his countenance soon Brightcn'd with joy ; for murmuring from within Were heard sonorous... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 612 pàgines
...Landor. I have written some worse myself. L. So has Wordsworth. Attend to the echo in the Excursion : " 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, murmuring from within, Were heard sonorous... | |
 | 1843 - 602 pàgines
...Landor. I have written some worse myself. L. So has Wordsworth. Attend to the echo in the Excursion : " I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...shell, To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Lbttn'd intensely, and his countenance soon Brighlen'd with joy; for, murmuring from within, Were heard... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 612 pàgines
...Landor. I have written some worse myself. L. So has Wordsworth. Attend to the echo in the Excursion : " I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland eround, applying to his ear The convolutions ot a smooth-lipp'd shell, To which, in silence hush'd,... | |
 | Sights - 1844 - 104 pàgines
...all of which deserve examination. A single shell may afford much pleasure. Wordsworth says : — " 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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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... 
