For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with... The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 651894Full view - About this book
| William Wordsworth - 1800 - 272 pages
...mourn nor murmur : other gifts Have followed, for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recosupence. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts -, a sense sublime Of something... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...mourn nor murmur ; other gifts Have followed, for such loss, I would believe., Abundant recompence. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts ; a sense sublime Of something... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...mourn nor murmur: Other gifts Have followed, for such loss, I would believe, i: Abundant recompence. For I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the...grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 pages
...mourn nor murmur ; other gifts Have followed, for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompence. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts ; a sense sublime Of something... | |
| 1808 - 596 pages
...two brief passages from Tintern Abbey. ' ——— I have learn'd To look on Nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes...grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Or elevated thoughts ; a sense sublime Of something... | |
| William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...mourn nor murmur ; other gifts Have followed, for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts ; a sense sublime Of something... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...mourn nor murmur ; other gifts Have followed, for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts ; a sense sublime Of something... | |
| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 372 pages
...mourn nor murmur ; other gifts Have followed, for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompence. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts ; a sense sublime Of something... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1824 - 586 pages
...peculiar cast, but it is the mind of a poet, and of one who has learned ' To look on nature — hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue , a mind, which has known the 'joy of elevated thoughts,' and felt ' A sense... | |
| 1823 - 450 pages
...For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftcntimei The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten atfd subdue. WORDSWORTH. IN a former paper we stated a few particulars respecting an excursion... | |
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