 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - Authors, English - 1866 - 258 pages
...A music sweeter than his own ? He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noonday grove ; And you must love him ere to you He will seem worthy of your love. This seems a portrait of Lamb " at home," and was no doubt as amusing to him as Coleridge's expression... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...a music sweeter than their own. He is retired as noontide dew, or fountain in a noonday grove ; and you must love him, ere to you he will seem worthy of your love. For he is weak, both man and boy, hath been an idler in the land ; contented if he might enjoy the... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 pages
...properly esteem of it. It is like a picture of one of the choice old Italian masters. Its gusto is of that hidden sort. As Wordsworth sings of a modest poet,...;' so brawn, you must taste it ere to you it will seem to have any taste at all. But 'tis nuts to the adept: those that will send out their tongue and... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...AA . He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own. A Poet's Epitaph. St. la And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love. Ibid. St. II. The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart Ibid. St. 13. My... | |
 | Theology - 1869 - 476 pages
...description of his friend : — " He is retired as noon-tide dew, Or fountains in a noon-day grove ; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love." But surely along with the sadness and shyness, too well accounted for, there must have been a greater... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870 - 424 pages
...music sweeter than their own. He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove ; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love. The outward shows of sky and earth, Of hill and valley, he has viewed ; And impulses of deeper birth... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 378 pages
...displayed."— Corinne, livre xv., chap. ii. There is deep significance in those lines of Wordsworth's, " And you must love him ere to you he will seem worthy of your love." So profoundly humane a poet as Wordsworth, in the fullest sense of the phrase, could not but be rich in... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1871 - 622 pages
...A music sweeter than their own. He is retired as noontide dew Or fountain in a noon-day grove ; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love. The outward shows of sky and earth. Of hill and valley he has viewed ; And impulses of deeper birth... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - Authors - 1871 - 350 pages
...than their own. He is retired as noontide dew, 'N, . Or fountain in a, noonday grove; • r . • And you must love him, ere to you ' He will seem worthy of your love> The outward shows of sky and earth, Of hill and valley, he had viewed ; And impulses of deeper birth... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pages
...music sweeter than their own. He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove ; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love, The outward shows of sky and earth, Of hill and valley he has viewed ; And impulses of deeper birth... | |
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He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove ; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love... 
