The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor... Cyclopędia of English literature - Page 327by Robert Chambers - 1844Full view - About this book
| William Wordsworth - 1800 - 272 pages
...boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by,) To me was all in all. — I cannot.paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me...Unborrowed from the eye. — That time is past, And all its achingjoys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this 205 Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 pages
...food For future years. And so I dare to hope Though changed, no doubt, from what I was, when first I came among these hills ; when like a roe I bounded...interest Unborrowed from the eye. — That time is past, Avnd all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by)' To me was all in all.—-I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract...thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye.—That time is past And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for... | |
| William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ballads - 1805 - 284 pages
...food For future years. And so I dare to hopa Though changed, no doubt, from what I was, when first I came among these hills; when like a roe I bounded...feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charrn, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye. — That time is past, And all... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...food For future years. And so I dare to hope Though changed, no doubt, from what I was, when first I came among these hills ; when like a roe I bounded...feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, 76 By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye. — That time is past, And all its... | |
| William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 pages
...thought, sentiment, and almost of action ; or, as it will be found expressed, of a state of mind when " the sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion :...supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye" — Twill own that I was much at a loss what to select of these descriptions; and perhaps it would... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 pages
...thought, sentiment, and almost of action ; or, as it will be found expressed, of a state of mind when " the sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion :...remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Uiiborrowed from the eye" — I will own that I was much at a loss what to select of these descriptions... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...original, that the redder may judge if we are correct, especially as the poem is not very well known. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion :...feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter charm, &c. Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads, Vol. I. p. Iwi. CHIT. Rsv. VOL. IV. Nov. 1816. 3 T " Now, where the... | |
| England - 1838 - 884 pages
...And their glad varied moments all gone by) To me was all in all. I cannot paint What then I was. Tho sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the...forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a lojjre That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any Interest I'nborrowed from... | |
| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 378 pages
...thought, sentiment, and almost of action ; or, as it will be found expressed, of a state of mind when " the sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion :...supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye" — * These Poems are now printed entire. I will own that I was much at a loss what to select of these... | |
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