 | William Wordsworth - 1837 - 402 lehte
...Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native...universe itself Is to the ear of Faith ; and there are timea, I doubt not, when to you it doth impart Authentic tidings of invisible things ; Of ebb and flow,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1837 - 602 lehte
...And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.' The passage from ' The Excursion ' is this— 1 1 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... | |
 | 1815 - 560 lehte
...murmurings from within Were heard — sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor express'd Mysterious union with its native sea. Even such a...shell the universe itself Is to the ear of faith ; and doth impart Authentic tidings of invisible things: Of ebb and flow, and ever during power; And central... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 750 lehte
...inferior faculty that moulds, With her minute and speculative pains, Opinion, ever changing ! I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell ; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intensely; and his countenance... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 752 lehte
...inferior faculty that moulds, With her minute and speculative pains, Opinion, ever changing ! I have seen kind, Supported is his right : But see him on the edge of life, With care car The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell ; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 796 lehte
...inferior faculty that moulds, With her minute and speculative pains, Opinion, ever changing ! I have seen eer, Pass widow'd nights and joyless days, While Willie's far frae Logan car The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell ; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd... | |
 | 1839 - 538 lehte
...promontory," and that the universe is hollow without the presence of faith and imagination : " I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1839 - 540 lehte
...Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native...shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith." Excursion, b. iv. It is the principle of the poet's love of nature that the soul, during its abode... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1839 - 362 lehte
...moan, as moans the ocean-shell. Such a shell as Wordsworth has beautifully described. " I have seen A curious child who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Usten'd intently, and his countenance... | |
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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 murmurings... 
