Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie... Littell's Living Age - Page 2291886Full view - About this book
| William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pages
...any thing to shew more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in it's majesty : This City now doth like a garment wear The...smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth at... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...Sept. 3, 1803. EARTH has not any thing to shew more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty ; This City now...smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw 1, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at... | |
| William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...Sept. 3, 1803. EA RTH has not any thing to shew more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could, pass by A sight so touching in its majesty •/ This City...smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...perusing it. " Earth has not any thing to shew more fair : Dull would he be of soul that could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This city now...smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt a calm so deep ! The river glideth at... | |
| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 362 pages
...sIFT. 3. 1s03. EARTH has not any thing to shew more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : This City now...smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1824 - 478 pages
...rural Scenery. Earth has not anything to shew more fair ; Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty. This city now...smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth... | |
| Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1826 - 550 pages
...WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. Earth has not any thing to shew more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : This city now...smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...SEPT. 3, 1803. EARTH has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : This City now...smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth... | |
| John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...SEPT. 3, 1803. EARTH has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : This City now...air. Never did sun more beautifully steep, In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth... | |
| William Wordsworth - Sonnets, English - 1899 - 308 pages
...Westminster A sight so touching in its majesty : Bridge This City now doth, like a garment, wear aept 3, 1802 The beauty of the morning : silent, bare, Ships, towers,...smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth... | |
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