| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1800 - 240 pages
...up the mountain springs, And hers shall be the breathing balm, And hers thfi silence and the calm ' Of mute insensate things. The floating clouds their...lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets danee their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. And vital feelings... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1805 - 262 pages
...bend ; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy. " The Stars of midnight shall...a secret place Where Rivulets dance their wayward roundA And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. " And vital feelings of delight... | |
| William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 pages
...From social warblers gathering in Their harvest of sweet lays " ; and when he says of his Lucy, — " The stars of midnight shall be dear To her ; and she...beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face "; — in these lines we have four pure and perfect metaphors. Again : In Cymbeline, old Belarius says... | |
| 1815 - 612 pages
...wraps the heart in a contagious softness, where shall we find them, if not in the Lyrical Ballads? " The stars of midnight shall be dear To her, and she...born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face." * * * * Thus Nature spake ; the work was done ; How soon my Lucy's race was run ! She died, and left... | |
| English literature - 1815 - 606 pages
...wraps the heart in a contagious softness, where shall we find them, if not in the Lyrical Ballads? " The stars of midnight shall be dear . . . To her,...their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring tound Shall pass into her face" » * * » Thus Nature spake ; the work was done; • . How soon my... | |
| 664 pages
...mind — the music breathing from her face," while he has overlooked the One lines of Wordsworth, " And she shall lean her ear In many a secret place...Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty horn of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face." by which the idea was probably suggested to his... | |
| Sir Charles Abraham Elton - 1820 - 136 pages
...11. — P. 82. His eye shall gaze the sunset's ruddy light, And grow enamour'd of the gliding moon. "The stars of midnight shall be dear To her, and she...born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face." — Thus Nature spoke : the work was done : — How soon my Lucy's race was run ! She died, and left... | |
| 1822 - 666 pages
...the fine line* of Wordsworth, 635 " Andjehe shall lean her ear In many a secret plaoe. Where riv'lets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face." I have indulged in this latitude of quotation, Sir, because I wish to do all possible justice to this... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1824 - 478 pages
...; Nor shall she fail to see, Even in the motions of the storm, Grace that shall mould the maiden's form By silent sympathy. The stars of midnight shall...born of murmuring sound, Shall pass into her face. ' Tintern Abbey' is a variety of the same class. If we were called on to point out our favorite piece... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...bend ; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy. The Stars of midnight shall be dear To her ; and she shall lean her ear lu many a secret place Where Rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound... | |
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