 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...words alone, a pile that ne'er decays. A YOUTHFUL POET CONTEMPLATING NATURE. FOR the growing youth, What soul was his, when from the naked top Of some...the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light ! He look'd — Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay In gladness... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 566 pages
...love'' in his inspiration, but that came also, and — " Such was the boy ; but for the growing youth What soul was his, when, from the naked top Of some...the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay In gladness and deep joy. The clouds were touched, And in their silent faces did he... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 380 pages
...and absolute unintelligibility ? " O then what soul was his, when on the tops Of the high mountains he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in...the solid frame of earth, And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay In gladness and deep joy. The clouds were touched, And in their silent faces did he... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 380 pages
...PW, vi., p. 10.) The passage now begins thus :— " Such was the Boy — but for the growing Youth What soul was his, when, from the naked top Of some bold headland, he beheld, &c." Compare with this Goethe's Sunset (in the dialogue between Faust and Wagner after the scene of... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 462 pages
...had erred concerning the degree of its excellence, I might be easily induced to believe or apVVIiat soul was his, when, from the naked top Of some bold headland, he beheld &c." Compare with this Goethe's Sunset, (in the dialogue between Faust and Wagner after the scene of... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 pages
...passages in the poem, — that, for instance, which describes the sensations of the "growing youth," " When, from the naked top Of some bold headland, he...beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light," — are quoted only to be dismissed with the title of " stuff." It is the incapacity to discern merit,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1848 - 378 pages
...i., PW, vi., p. 10.) The passage now begins thus:— " Such was the Boy — but for the growing Youth What soul was his, when, from the naked top Of some bold headland, he beheld, &c." Compare with this Goethe's Sunset (in the dialogue between Faust and Wagner after the scene of... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1849 - 406 pages
...means, has taught To feel intensely, cannot but receive. Such was the Boy—but for the growing Youth What soul was his, when, from the naked top Of some...earth And ocean's liquid mass, in gladness lay Beneath him:—Far and wide the clouds were touched, And in their silent faces could he read Unutterable love.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 578 pages
...unintelligibility. ' O then what soul was his. when on the top* Of the high mountains he beheld the sun Rije DP, and bathe the world in light ! He looked — Ocean...earth, the solid frame of earth. And ocean's liquid mow, beneath him lap In gladness and deep joy. The clouds were touched. And in their silent faces did... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1849 - 488 pages
...spirit under such circumstances could be adequately described only in the poet's inspired language : — "He looked; Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth, And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay In gladness and deep joy Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank... | |
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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 and deep joy. The... 
