 The roaring of the wind is my wife and the Stars through the window pane are my Children. The mighty abstract Idea I have of Beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness...  The Dublin Review - Page 147edited by - 1848Full view - About this book
 | American literature - 1849 - 606 pages
...happiness should not be so fine ; and my solitude is sublime. Then, instead of what I have described, there is a sublimity to welcome me home, the roaring of the wind is my wife, and the stars through my window panes are my children. The mighty abstract idea of beauty in all things I have, stifles the... | |
 | 1848 - 916 pages
...not be so fine ; my solitude is sublime — for there is a sublimity to welcome me home, the roariiig of the wind is my wife, and the stars through my window-panes are mjr children." This is but pretty nonsense, and the poet by and bye felt the power of woman, though... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 588 pages
...happiness should not be so fine ; and my solitude is sublime. Then, instead of what I have described, there is a sublimity to welcome me home, the roaring of the wind is my wife, and the stars through my window panes are my children. The mighty abstract idea of beauty in all things I have, stifles the... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 636 pages
...happiness should not be so fine; and my solitude is sublime. Then, instead of what I have described, there is a sublimity to welcome me home, the roaring of the wind is my wife, and the stars through my window panes are my children. The mighty abstract idea of beauty in all things I have, stifles the... | |
 | 1850 - 540 pages
...last night the moon had dwindled in heaven, from disgust at Devonshire scenery." Again he writes, " There is a sublimity to welcome me home, the roaring of the wind is my wife ; the stars through my window panes are my children ; the mighty abstract idea of Beauty in all things,... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Biography - 1852 - 228 pages
...my happiness would not be, so fine ; my solitude is sublime : for instead of what I have described, there is a sublimity to welcome me home : — the...window-panes are my children ; the mighty abstract of beauty, in all things, I have, stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness. An amiable... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1876 - 432 pages
...my happiness would not be, so fine ; my solitude is sublime : for instead of what I have described, there is a sublimity to welcome me home,— the roaring...windowpanes are my children ; the mighty abstract of beauty in all things I have, stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness. An amiable... | |
 | J. W. Appleton - 1879 - 216 pages
...rather my happiness would not be so fine. My solitude is sublime, for instead of what I have described, there is a sublimity to welcome me home : the roaring of the wind is my wife, and the stars through the window panes are my children ; the mighty abstract of beauty, in all things we have, stifles the... | |
 | John Keats - Poets, English - 1883 - 416 pages
...happiness should not be, so } fine ; my solitude is sublime — for, instead of what I have ( described, there is a sublimity to welcome me home ; the/ roaring...window-panes are my children ; the mighty abstract Idea1' of Beauty in all things, I have, stifles the more divided,' and minute domestic happiness. An... | |
 | John Keats - 1884 - 310 pages
...happiness should not be, so fine ; my solitude is sublime— for, instead of what I have described, there is a sublimity to welcome me home ; the roaring of the wind is my wife ; and the stars through the window-panes are my children ; the mighty abstract Idea of Beauty in all things, I have, stifles... | |
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