 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1887 - 490 pagina’s
...describes the deep peace of a summer evening : " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy air is quiet as a nun, Breathless with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in his tranquility : The gentleness of heaven is on the sea," etc. Or when in the Excursion he describes... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 548 pagina’s
...combination of the most powerful and intense meditation with the utmost sweetness of feeling. " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet an a nun Breathless with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 pagina’s
...And let my spirit in that power divine Rejoice, an, through that power, it ceased to mourn. XXX. IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time...down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea : Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pagina’s
...that power divine Rejoice, as, through that power, it ceased to mourn. IT is a beauteous evening, cahu and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless...down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea : Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pagina’s
...tes arepowerlcssphantomswhenutf build." CHILDHOOD. Am sleeps — from strife or stir the clouds are free ; The holy time is quiet as a nun. Breathless with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in it« tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven brood's o'er the sea : But list! the mighty Being is awake,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 444 pagina’s
...the prelude wherewith it seems as if nature herself would put man in harmony for the Sabbath. " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder —... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pagina’s
..."Hell-gates are powerless phantomswhenioebuild." CHILDHOOD. Am sleeps — from strife or stir the clouds are free ; The holy time is quiet as a nun. Breathless...down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven brood's o'er the sea : But list ! the mighty Bring is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make... | |
 | 1846 - 492 pagina’s
...influence, a personification of unending duration, uttering aloud the oracles of primeval truth. ' Listen ! the mighty being is awake, And doth with...motion make A sound like thunder, everlastingly.' Where are the myriads of men who have trodden its shores, and gone down to it in ships? They are passed... | |
 | 1846 - 496 pagina’s
...influence, a personification of unending duration, uttering aloud the oracles of primeval truth. ' Listen '. the mighty being is awake, And doth with...motion make A sound like thunder, everlastingly.' Where are the myriads of men who have trodden its shores, and gone down to it in ships? They are passed... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 430 pagina’s
...time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with...motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly !" — WORDSWORTH. There is the feeling, if not the audible sense, of a similar sound among the mountains,... | |
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It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven is on the Sea: Listen! 
