 | John Aikin - 1838 - 796 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 752 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1839 - 538 pagina’s
...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...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1839 - 362 pagina’s
...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...ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Usten'd intently, and his countenance... | |
 | George Washington Bethune - 1840 - 64 pagina’s
...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...ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell, To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 380 pagina’s
...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...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... | |
 | 1830 - 596 pagina’s
...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...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... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 380 pagina’s
...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...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1841 - 400 pagina’s
...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...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1855 - 584 pagina’s
...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... | |
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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... 
