| Emily Taylor - 1839 - 306 pages
...sent abroad In summer to tend herds ; such was his task Thenceforward till the latter day of youth. O then what soul was his, when, on the tops Of the...the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light ! He looked — Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay In gladness... | |
| 1839 - 444 pages
...been a herd on Scottish hills, where he received th* impressions that shaped his future life:— '• on the tops Of the high mountains he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe tho world in light! He look'd— Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid man,... | |
| Henry A. Worcester - 1840 - 140 pages
...Boy — but for the growing Youth What soul was his, when, from the naked top Of some bold headland, he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light! He looked — Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay In gladness... | |
| 1839 - 512 pages
...soul a fervor of devotion such as he himself describes in the following magnificent verses : — " He beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light ! He looked — Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth, And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay In gladness... | |
| Peel Club, Glasgow - 1840 - 256 pages
...boy — but for the growing youth, What soul was his, when, from the naked top Of some bold headland, he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light !" What a spectacle to one so educated ! Beautiful to any not utterly destitute of taste and feeling,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1841 - 400 pages
...Boy — but for the growing Youth What soul was his, when, from the naked top Of some bold headland, he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light ! He looked—- Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay In gladness... | |
| Robert Story - 1842 - 276 pages
...rapture of poetry, heightened and hallowed by the rapture of religion ! Do you recollect these lines ? ' O then what soul was his, when on the tops Of the...the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light ! He looked — Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay In gladness... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 426 pages
...perhaps none more so than that which the Edinburgh Review extracted for reprobation, beginning — " Oh then what soul was his, when, on the tops Of the high...beheld the sun Rise up and bathe the world in light !") P. 13, 8vo. ed. — while I reverence the purity of intention, and devotional love of nature, which... | |
| Robert Bigsby - 1842 - 442 pages
...phase of changeful nature, Its wise, its solemn counsel still the same! V.—MOUNTAIN SCENERY. " Oh, then what soul was his, when, on the tops Of the high...beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light!" IT is a glorious privilege to breathe WORDSWORTH. The bliss that springs from Nature's proudest charms—... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 414 pages
...perhaps none more so than that which the Edinburgh Review extracted for reprobation, beginning— " Oh then what soul was his, when, on the tops Of the high...mountains, he beheld the sun Rise up and bathe the world in licht!") P. 13, 8vo. ed. —while I reverence the purity of intention, and devotional love of nature,... | |
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