 There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar : I love not Man the less, but Nature more...  Childe Harold's pilgrimage, a romaunt - Page 155by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826Full view - About this book
 | 1838 - 876 pages
...hating no one, love but only her ! Ye elements !— in whose ennobling stir I feel myself exalted — Can ye not Accord me such a being? Do I err In deeming such inhabit many a spoil Though with them to converse can rarely be our lot. " There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,... | |
 | Edmund Flagg - Illinois - 1838 - 306 pages
...at my own heedless desecration of the political Sabbath of our land. Vandalia, III. XX. - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society whore none intrudes — " Childe Harold. " The sun in all his broad career Ne'er looked upon a fairer... | |
 | Eugene O'Neill - Drama - 1988 - 326 pages
...too. [He stares, then turns abruptly to gaze up at the s\y again. Deborah begins to read.] There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these... | |
 | R. R. Agrawal - Art - 1990 - 316 pages
...following lines provide a good example: Oh! that the Desert were my dwelling-place. . . . There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar.39 While reading such passages one is naturally reminded... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...elements I— in whose ennobling stir I feel myself exalted— Can ye not Accord me such a being Í bo j 5I J 4 / ) [ Q I /~X A }M? * > u u G>| kU$ a NH U Q @ CLXXVIU. There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is... | |
 | Philip Koch - Philosophy - 1994 - 400 pages
...as we wish our souls to be. — "Julian and Maddalo"' Byron's praise is equally famous: There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but Nature more — Cbilde... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...hating no one, love but only her! Ye Elements! - in whose ennobling stir 1590 I feel myself exalted - Can ye not Accord me such a being? Do I err In deeming...lot. CLXXVIII There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, 1595 There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep... | |
 | Charles Bernstein - American poetry - 1998 - 401 pages
...treatment, loses the visual dimension that might otherwise provoke too jingling a reading: "There is a pleasure in the pathless woods; there is a rapture on the lonely shore; there is society, where none intrudes— by the deep Sea,— and music in its roar."35 In his note "On the Reading of Verse," Bell... | |
 | Thomas W. Chapman - Religion - 1999 - 544 pages
...something of the inner world of each of us when he wrote in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these... | |
 | Richard W. Bevis - History - 1999 - 442 pages
...feeling for humanity seems academic compared to the emotional investment in the wilds. "There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, / There is a rapture on the lonely shore" (lines 1,594-5) leads into a hymn to the everlasting ocean (stanza 182) as a "sublime" mirror... | |
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