 | William Wordsworth - 1814 - 476 pagini
...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...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard, — sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the Monitor expressed... | |
 | 1815 - 670 pagini
...success in subduing a most untractable thought, and enriching himself with its spoils. * I have seen A curious Child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard, — sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the Monitor expressed... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1815 - 702 pagini
...thought, and enriching himself with its ppoils. ' I have seen A curious Child, who dwelt upon a tract Oi' inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for nmrmurings from within • Were heard, — sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the Monitor... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1815 - 572 pagini
...Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Were heard,—sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native...itself Is to the ear of faith ; and there are times, Authentic tidings of invisible things; I doubt not, when to you it doth impart And central peace, subsisting... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1815 - 558 pagini
...murmurings from within Were heard — sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor express'd Mysterious union with its native sea. Even such a...shell the universe itself Is to the ear of faith ; and doth impart Authentic tidings of invisible things: Of ebb and flow, and ever during power; And central... | |
 | 1843 - 844 pagini
...some worse myself. Landor. — So has Wordsworth. Attend to the echo in the Excursion. " I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell, To which, in silence hush'd, his very BOU! Listen'd intensely, and his countenance... | |
 | 1847 - 648 pagini
...careful examination. A single shell may afford much pleasure. A celebrated poet says, — " I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell ; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intensely ; and his countenance... | |
 | 1842 - 418 pagini
...had foretold ! THE SEA-SHELL'S MURMUR, BY R. SHELTON MACKENZIE, LL.D. . I have seen A curious child, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for, murmuring from within, Were heard sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - 1825 - 224 pagini
...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, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell ; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intently, and his countenance... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - 1825 - 222 pagini
...murmurings from within Were heard — sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor express'd Mysterious union with its native sea. — Even such...shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith." — The Excursion. Note 3, page 8, line 10. / see an oak be/'-,re me, ,Srt. " I recollect hearing a... | |
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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 murmurings... 
