 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...been embodied by a poet's words, — a passage in the " Excursion " presenting the same image : — " I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to her ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell, To which, in silence hush'd, her very soul Listen'd... | |
 | John Cumming - 1858 - 628 pages
...GARDEV 9 AUTHOR OF "VOICES OF THE NIGHT," " CHRI3T RECEIVING SINNERS," "SCRIPTURK READINGS," ETC. BTC. I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...smooth-lipped shell, To which, in silence hushed, hia very soul Listened intently, and his countenance Brightened with joy ; for within were heard Murmurings,... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pages
...By the inferior faculty that moulds, With her minute and speculative pains, Opinion, ever changing. I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell ; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intensely ; and his countenance... | |
 | Science - 1918 - 934 pages
..."Excursion" when I think of the true attitude to the slowly evolving history of man. "I have seen [he says] A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland...were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed •L'fysterious union with its native sea. Even such a shell the Universe itself Is to the ear of faith;... | |
 | Robert Crookall - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1969 - 204 pages
...smiling upon me * See pp. 54, 104. t Compare Wordsworth, who said : "I have seen A curious child . . . applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell, To which, in silence hushed, liix very Soul Listened intensely; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for from within were... | |
 | Mary Caroline Richards - Art - 1989 - 196 pages
...Excursion" William Wordsworth has written a passage which suggests the magnitude of our listening power : I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea. Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith; and there are times, I doubt not, when... | |
 | David P. Haney - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 289 pages
..."authentic tidings of invisible things" as the child, committing an empirical "error" listens to a shell: I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea. Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith; and there are times, I doubt not, when... | |
 | Donna Farhi - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 260 pages
...your own homecoming. May each breath be like a footstep bringing you back to the home of yourself. I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with it's native sea. Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith; and there are times,... | |
 | Alison Hickey - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 268 pages
...through the temporality of writing) to mediate between self and other, as in this example from book 4: I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea. Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith; and there are times, I doubt not, when... | |
 | Felicia Hemans - Poetry - 2002 - 506 pages
...birth-place moan, as moans the ocean-shell. [1.36] Such a shell as Wordsworth has beautifully described. "I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intently, and his countenance... | |
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I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell ; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for from... 
