First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit ; Poet who hath been building up the rhyme When he had better far have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moon-light, to the influxes Of shapes... The Monthly review. New and improved ser - Page 2011799Full view - About this book
| Books - 1799 - 618 pages
...from the charge of having alludul with levity to a line in Milton : a charge tlisn which none coukl be more painful to him, except perhaps that of having...like nature ! — But 'twill not be so ; And youths ami maidens most poetical Who lose the deep'ning twilights of the spring In ball-rooms and hot theatres,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 pages
...except perhaps that of having ridiculed his Bible. When lie had better far have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell By sun or moon-light,...itself Be lov'd, like nature !— But 'twill not be «o ., And youths and maidens most poetical Who lose the deep'ning twilights of the spring In ball-rooms... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...except perhaps that of having ridiculed hi» Bible. When he had better far have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell By sun or moon-light,...song Should make all nature lovelier, and itself Be lov'dj like nature ! — But 'twill not be so ; And youths and maidens most poetical Who lose the deep'ning... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...conceit; Poet, who hath been building up the rhyme When he had better far have stretch'd his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moonlight,...venerable thing ! and so his song Should make all Nature lorelier, and itself propriety. The Author makes thi* remark, to rescue himself from the charge of... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 pages
...conceit ; Poet, who hath been building up the rhyme When he had better far have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell By sun- or moon-light,...song ' Should make all nature lovelier, and itself Be loved, like nature ! — But 'twill not be so ; And youths and maidens most poetical Who lose the deep'ning... | |
| William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ballads - 1805 - 284 pages
...building up the rhyme When he had better far have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest- dell By sun- or moon-light, to the influxes Of shapes and...song Should make all nature lovelier, and itself Be loved, like nature ! — But 'twill not be so j And youths and maidens most poetical Who lose the deep'ning... | |
| British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...conceit ; Poet, who hath been building up the rhyme When he had better far have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell By sun or moonlight,...of his song And of his fame forgetful! so his fame Shonld share in nature's immortality, A venerable thing! and so his song Should make all nature lovelier,... | |
| Edward Quillinan - Wood-engraving, British - 1820 - 158 pages
...hare stretched his limhs l,i Milr a hrook in mossy forest-dell By sun or moon-light, to the inriuxes Of shapes and sounds and shifting elements Surrendering...so his fame Should share in nature's immortality, A venerahle thing! and so his song Should make all nature lovelier, and itself Be loved like nature !... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1828 - 374 pages
...conceit ; Poet who hath been building up the rhyme When he had better far have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By Sun or Moon-light,...his song And of his fame "forgetful ! so his fame * " MOST MUSICAL, MOST MELANCHOLY."] This passage JB Should share in Nature's immortality, A venerable... | |
| British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...conceit , Poet who hath been building up therhrne When lie had better far hnie Ktrrlcli'd hit limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By Sun or Moon-light, to the influxes Of shapes and sounds and drifting clrraenti Surrendering his whole spirit, of hi« ton; And of his fame forgetful! so his fame... | |
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