 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
 | Richard Green Parker - 1854 - 504 pages
...and restore The tone of languid nature, flighty whists, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The...his winding shore, , And lull the spirit, while they till the mind, Utnium/wttl h-ancftex waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast fluttering all... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1854 - 436 pages
...expresses this truth with exquisite taste in the following passage : " 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 hia winding shore.... | |
 | William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1854 - 850 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 unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore,... | |
 | Arthur Max Hantsche - 1901 - 160 pages
...Wirklichkeit doch stets vorhandenen Wahrnehmungen stets berücksichtigt sind: »Nor rural sights alone but rural sounds »Exhilarate the spirit, and restore...»Of ancient growth make music not unlike »The dash o t' ocean on bis winding shore, »And lull the spirit while they fill the mind, »Unnumber'd branches... | |
 | 1901 - 106 pages
...of all English-speaking people. EURAL SOUNDS. (From TJie Task, Book I.) 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,... | |
 | Alban Bertram De Mille - 1902 - 546 pages
...real; "a ruffling wind " blows in our faces, and all the gracious open-air noises come to our ears. Mighty winds That sweep the skirt of some far spreading...not unlike The dash of ocean on his winding shore, Unnumbered branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast fluttering all at once. For over... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1902 - 360 pages
...generation which has a passion for fine things, I will allow myself another: ' 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... | |
 | Henry Norman, Henry Chalmers Roberts - 1903 - 706 pages
...the hills, or a river, are there not trees which, fiercely swept or gently breathed on by the wind, " make music not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore " ? At night, as I stroll under my own cottage elms or rest indoors, every detail of those lines of... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 pages
...kings of Brentford on one throne.1 The Tade. Book i. The Sofa. Line 77. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. Line isi. The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change And pleased... | |
 | Canniff Haight - 1904 - 684 pages
...along quiet parts, by murmuring brooks, and through sheltered lanes ! " 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."... | |
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