 For I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with...  The North American Review - Page 354edited by - 1844Full view - About this book
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...pictured here. Our correspondent, indeed, seems to have felt like Wordsworth, where he says, — " For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humamty. Not harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 360 pages
...nor mourn, nor murmur; other gifts Have followed; for such loss I would believe Abundant recompense. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, but of amplest power To soften and subdue. " That... | |
 | 1912 - 880 pages
...at some length, for it embodies Wordsworth's view of "the correspondency of the Universe to Deity." I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity. Not hard nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...mourn nor murmur ; other gifts Have followed ; for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompence. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, 160 POEMS OF THE IMAGINATION. Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample... | |
 | 1845 - 328 pages
...nor mourn nor murmur; other gifts Have followed ; for such loss, I would believe Abundant recompense. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ampler power To chasten and subdue. And... | |
 | 1847 - 488 pages
...the most important sources of eloquence. The experience of Wordsworth has been that of others : — " For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated... | |
 | Josiah Moody Fletcher - 1847 - 148 pages
...our faults may be forgiven ; Plead that ye be sent to greet ua At the gates of heaven ! ANON. Nature. I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity ; Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. WOEDSWOBTH.... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 pages
...proceeds to indicate the new aspect under which they appear to him, since " Impulses of deeper birth Have come to him in solitude," and his mind has held mysterious...: — " For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes 11 The still, sad music of humanity, Nor... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 pages
...mourn nor murmur ; other gifts Have followed ; for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompencc. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, IS* 161 Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1852 - 202 pages
...beheld upon a verdant plain near the sea, the Saracenic domes and wide-spreading dwellings of Catania. I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still Bad music of humanity. WORDSWORTH, late Prince of Biscari was the Roscoe of Catania. Affluent,... | |
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