Nor man nor boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy ! Hence, in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see... Gems for the Fireside: Comprising the Most Unique, Touching, Pithy, and ... - Page 209by Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 912 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pages
...eternal Silence : truths that wake, To perish never ; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy,...travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. Then, sing ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song !... | |
| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...eternal Silence : truths that wake, To perish never; Which neither listlessness, nor. mad endeavour, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy,...travel thither. And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolHng evermore.. Then, sing ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song !... | |
| 1808 - 596 pages
...Ode, that there are ' Truths that wake To perish never; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour, Nor man nor boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy,...travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.' Vol. II. p. 156. After our preliminary remarks... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...: truths that wake, To perish never ; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour, VOL. IK AA 353 Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy,...travel thither, — And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. Then, sing ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song !... | |
| William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...Silence : truths that wake, To perish never ; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour, VOL. II. AA Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy,...travel thither, — And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. Then, sing ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song !... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 316 pages
...eternal silence ; truths that wake To perish never : Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour Nor man nor boy Nor all that is at enmity with joy...travel thither — And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore." And since it would be unfair to conclude with... | |
| 1821 - 420 pages
...Silence." And then for the retrospect which a meditative and imaginative mind can exercise : — " Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far...travel thither, — And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore." I am conscious that I have already quoted more... | |
| Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - English essays - 1824 - 446 pages
...Silence." . . And then for the retrospect which a meditative and imaginative mind can exercise : — " Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far...travel thither, — And see the children sport upon the shore, \ And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore." I am conscious that I have already quoted more... | |
| 1824 - 446 pages
...Silence." And then for the retrospect which a meditative and imaginative mind can exercise : — " Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far...travel thither, — And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore." I am conscious that I have already quoted more... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...eternal Silence : truths that wake, To perish never ; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy,...travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. 10. Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song... | |
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