 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
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...picture by a rapid sketch of still nobler features: — [Rural Sounds.] Nor rural eights alone, but shioned to the varying hour »weep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of ocean... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...listening ear, Groves, heaths, and smoking villages, remote. RURAL SOUNDS. 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,... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 922 pages
...when he next doth ride abroad, May I be there to see ! LOVE OF NATURE. NOB. 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,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 pages
...those beautiful lines of Cowper. " Nor rural sights alone, but rural soamds Exhilarate the spirits, 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,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 pages
...those beautiful lines of Cowper . " Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirits, 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,... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1846 - 256 pages
...sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirits, and restore The tone of languid nature. Temperate winds That sweep the skirt of some far spreading wood...growth, make music not unlike The dash of ocean on his sounding shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind." The breeze! the breeze! how delightful... | |
 | William Cowper - 1846 - 310 pages
...and the scrutiny of years. Praise justly due to those that I describe. 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 unltke The dash of Ocean on his winding shore,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1847 - 556 pages
...and the scrutiny of years : Praise justly due to those that I describe. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The...his winding shore, And lull the spirit while they fil' the mind ; L'nnumber'd branches waving in the blast. And all therr leaves fast fluttering, all... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 pages
...and the scrutiny of years : Praise justly due tp those which I describe. 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 RURAL SIGHTS AND SOUNDS. 153 Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 206 pages
...and the scrutiny of years : Praise justly due to those which I describe. 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 RURAL SIGHTS AND SOUNDS. 153 Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of... | |
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