 I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for from...  The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Стр. 241815Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - Страниц: 472
...By the inferior Faculty that moulds, With her minute and speculative pains, Opinion, ever changing! I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - Страниц: 372
...The music in my heart I hore, Long after it was heard no more. WORDSWORTH. ' The Solitary Reffiar.' 1 have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for from within were heard Murmurings, wherehy the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.... | |
 | 1857 - Страниц: 336
...into the heart of poet to conceive, — beautiful in itself and sublime in its application : — " I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped phell, To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely, and his countenance soon Brightened... | |
 | 1918 - Страниц: 934
..."Excursion" when I think of the true attitude to the slowly evolving history of man. "I have seen [he says] A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed •L'fysterious union with its native... | |
 | Robert Crookall - 1969 - Страниц: 204
...smiling upon me * See pp. 54, 104. t Compare Wordsworth, who said : "I have seen A curious child . . . applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell, To which, in silence hushed, liix very Soul Listened intensely; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for from within were... | |
 | Mary Caroline Richards - 1989 - Страниц: 196
...Excursion" William Wordsworth has written a passage which suggests the magnitude of our listening power : I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.... | |
 | David P. Haney - 2010 - Страниц: 289
..."authentic tidings of invisible things" as the child, committing an empirical "error" listens to a shell: I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy, for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.... | |
 | Donna Farhi - 1996 - Страниц: 260
...your own homecoming. May each breath be like a footstep bringing you back to the home of yourself. I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with it's native... | |
 | Alison Hickey - 1997 - Страниц: 268
...through the temporality of writing) to mediate between self and other, as in this example from book 4: I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.... | |
 | Felicia Hemans - 2002 - Страниц: 506
...birth-place moan, as moans the ocean-shell. [1.36] Such a shell as Wordsworth has beautifully described. "I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intently, and his countenance... | |
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