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" 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 flowers of literature, or, Encyclopædia of anecdote, a coll. by W. Oxberry - Page 101
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The State of Wisconsin Blue Book

1989 - 1010 pages
...its place, creating a scene of moonlight stillness, which was suited to fix a living impression of "The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills."23 19. Kinnickinnic State Park (Wis.), County Trunk F Unusual among Wisconsin parks, Kinnickinnic...
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Literature and Life

Edwin Percy Whipple - 1899 - 356 pages
...his mind. Love he had 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. But who is He with modest looks, And clad in homely russet brown ? He murmurs near the running brooks...
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Nineteenth Century and After, Volume 2

1877 - 926 pages
...sky and the mountain stillness after reading for the first time these two well-known lines ? — ' The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.' The charm of the next illustration is more accurately characterised when it is asked who has ' so called...
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Personal Forces in Modern Literature

Arthur Compton-Rickett - 1906 - 250 pages
...supplements in the most admirable way that of Wordsworth, and that after seeking with the Lake poet " The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is in the lonely hills," and realising with him that it is good for one's soul to leave nature - worship...
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Notes and Queries

1879 - 718 pages
...pen. ' Love had he found in huts where poor men live, His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky. The sleep that is among the lonely hills.' But he had other teachers, men of flesh and blood, as we are. Is it likely he was never in hiding in...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 29

George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 818 pages
...recurs to me. The teachers of the peasant noble, according to Wordsworth, had been, amongst others, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. The phrase exemplifies that mysterious charm with which a poet can invest the expression of the apparently...
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The Emergence of Romanticism

Nicholas V. Riasanovsky - 1995 - 128 pages
...time away.2 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.3 — The sky is overcast With a continuous cloud of texture close, Heavy and wan, all whitened...
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Selected Poems

William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 pages
...and tamed. 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. In him the savage virtue of the Race, Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead: Nor did he change;...
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Challenge of the North Cascades

Fred Beckey - 1996 - 300 pages
...to insignificance. I thought of Wordsworth's lines : "His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills." We drank tea and told stories quite late — much too late for the task at hand. The stories were so...
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Savaging the Civilized: Verrier Elwin, His Tribals, and India

Ramachandra Guha - 1999 - 436 pages
...a poem: I.ove had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers were the woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky The sleep that is among the lonely hills.47 A third caller was the scholar-wanderer Nirmal Kumar Bose, the other Indian anthropologist...
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