 Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.  The Quarterly Review - Page 343edited by - 1835Full view - About this book
 | 1850 - 806 pages
...shepherd's quiet and gentle spirit, and preferred to the bustle and the laurels of the battlefield — ' The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.' Surely, the hero and his poet both must be reckoned by the wise to have ' chosen the better part.'... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pages
...was framed, Who, long compell'd in humble walks to go, Was softened into feeling, sooth'd, and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie, His...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. In him the savage Virtue of the Race, Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead : Nor did he change... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...was framed. Who, long compell'd in humble walks to go, Was softened into feeling, sooth'd, and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie, His...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. In him the savage Virtue of the Race, Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead: Nor did he change;... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1807 - 904 pages
...was framed, Who, long compell'd in humble walks to go, Was soften'd into feeling, sooth'd, and tamed. In him the savage virtue of the race, Revenge, and...thoughts were dead : Nor did he change ; but kept in lofty place The wisdom which adversity had bred. TOL. vi. D i> Glad Glad were the vales, and every... | |
 | Thomas N. Brown - 1859 - 360 pages
...certain it is, that with the most obdurate inflexibility did he decline their every solicitation. " Love had he found in huts where poor men lie, His...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills ;" and with that love and these teachers he seemed unambitious to extend the circle of his acquaintanceship,... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 354 pages
...was framed, Who, long compell'd in humble walks to go, Was soften'd into feeling, sooth'd, and tamed. In him the savage virtue of the race, Revenge, and...thoughts were dead : Nor did he change; but kept in lofty place The wisdom which adversity had bred. Glad were the vales, and every cottage hearth; The... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...was framed, Who, long compelled in humble walks to go, Was softened into feeling, soothed, and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie, His...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. In him the savage Virtue of the Race, Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead : Nor did he change... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...was framed, Who, long compelled in humble walks to go, Was softened into feeling, soothed, and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie, His...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. In him the savage Virtue of the Race, Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead : Nor did he change... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 326 pages
...was framed, Who, long compelled in humble walks to go Was softened into feeling-, soothed, and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor men lie : His...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills." The words themselves in the foregoing extracts, are, no doubt, sufficiently common for the greater... | |
 | England - 1823 - 782 pages
...time-piece has struck one, we are off to Arthur's Seat. TO THE MEMOI1Y OP ROBERT BLOOMFIELD. Lore tad he found in huts where poor men lie* His daily teachers...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. WORD3WOBIH> SWEET, siini.Ir Poet, thou art gone ! And shall no parting tear be shed By those to whom... | |
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