 | 1815 - 394 pages
...common day ! — I — long before this blissful hour arrives, Would chaunt in lonely peace, the sponsal verse Of this great consummation ; — and by words...exquisitely the individual mind (And the progressive povv'rs perhaps no less Of the whole species) to the external world Is fitted ; and how exquisitely... | |
 | 1838 - 884 pages
...simple produce of the common day. — I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation...Which speak of nothing more than what we are, W'ould 1 arouse the sensual from their sleep Of death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures ;... | |
 | 1822 - 384 pages
...The author's design was the same with that of the great philosophical poet of our own days, to rouse the sensual from their sleep Of death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures, by an exhibition of their own capabilities of excellence and enjoyment. This noble design shines through... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1822 - 392 pages
...The author's design was the same with that of the great philosophical poet of our own days, to rouse the sensual from their sleep Of death, and win the vacant and the vaiu To noble raptures, by an exhibition of their own capabilities of excellence and enjoyment. This... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 pages
...simple produce of the common day. — I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant, in Joaely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation...by words Which speak of nothing more than what we arc. Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep Of Death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble... | |
 | 1838 - 938 pages
...simple produce of the common day. — 1, long before the blissful hour arrives, ' Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation...individual mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no lesi Of the whole species) to the external world Is fitted : — and how exquisitely, too — Theme... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 796 pages
...hour arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation ; — and, hy r her limbs an azure vest ; A figured nohle raptures ; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual mind (And the progressive... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 752 pages
...hour arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation ; — and, hy from the topmast-head ; I've * I've wander'd with a gipsy crew; I've dreaded all the guilty d Cf death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures ; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely... | |
 | 1839 - 538 pages
...simple produce of the common day. — I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation...Which speak of nothing more than what we are, Would 1 arouse the sensual from their sleep Of Death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures ;... | |
 | George Ripley - 1839 - 174 pages
...nature, to rebuke their proud disdain of divine things, and, like the great moral poet of England, To arouse the sensual from their sleep Of Death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures. " I know," says he, " that it is quite as little your custom to honor the Deity in the holy stillness... | |
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I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation : — and, by words Which speak of nothing more than what we are, Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep Of Death, and win the vacant... 
