 Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature. Mighty winds That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of ocean on his winding shore...  The London Quarterly Review - Page 2901811Full view - About this book
 | J. Macray - 1830 - 96 pages
...INFLUENCE OF NATURAL SCENERY. NIi:Í rural sights alone, hul rиrа! sounds, V \hilarate the spirit, am) restore The tone of languid Nature. Mighty winds. That sweep the skirt of somc far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of Ocian on its winding shore.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...the Scrutiny of years : Prake justly due to those that I describe. • Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit and restore The tone of languid Nature. Mighty wirids, , That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike... | |
 | 1831 - 584 pages
...busy ; a thousand other sounds, making good the poet's assertion : — " Not rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature." The cowslips are almost over — but the little blue veronica, called in country phrase, bird's cowslip,... | |
 | 1833 - 522 pages
...full perception of the sublime, in the first book of his beautiful poem of the Task. When he says, "Mighty winds That sweep the skirt of some far spreading wood, of ancient growth, make music not uniike Tue dash of ocean on his winding shore, And lull Hie spirit while they fill the mlud." Again... | |
 | 1833 - 508 pages
...sublime, in the first book of his beautiful poem of the Task. When he says, 'Mighty -winds That (weep the skirt of some far spreading wood, Of ancient growth, make music not unlike Tn« dash of ocean on his winding shore, And lull the ipirit while they nil the mind." Again; Nor IM«... | |
 | 1835 - 802 pages
...every element to our wants, but also made it minister to our enjoyment. ' Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The...Nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore.... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 440 pages
...chastised swellings of the heart that breathe iu UK* lines of Cowper: — " Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The...nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of ocean on his winding shore,... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...that breathe in these lines of Cowper : — " Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate tlic spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. Mighty winds. That sweep the skirl of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of ocean on his... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 362 pages
...interesting to compare with this the poetical expression of the same thought. " Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature * Letter to Mr. Newton. Nature inanimate employs sweet sounds, But animated nature sweeter still, To... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pages
...the scrutiny of years. Praise justly due to those that I describe. 180 Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirit '*, and restore...Nature. Mighty winds That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike 185 The dash of ocean on his winding shore,... | |
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