 THE everlasting universe of Things Flows through the Mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark — now glittering — now reflecting gloom — Now lending splendour, where from secret springs The source of human thought its tribute brings Of waters, —...  Shelley and His Writings - Page 49by Charles S. Middleton - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Annie Edwards Powell Dodds - 1926 - 280 pages
...rolls its rapid waves, Now dark—now glittering—now reflecting gloom— Now lending splendour, where from secret springs The source of human thought its tribute brings Of waters,—with a sound but half its own. • • • • • Dizzy Ravine! and when I gaze on thee... | |
 | Melvin Theodor Solve - 1927 - 236 pages
...rapid waves, Now dark — now glittering — now reflecting gloom — Now lending splendour, where from secret springs The source of human thought its...mountains lone, Where waterfalls around it leap for ever, Where woods and winds contend and a vast river Over its rocks ceaselessly bursts and raves.27 Compared... | |
 | Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn, Arnold Lunn - 1927 - 328 pages
...rolls its rapid waves, Now dark—now glittering—now reflecting gloom— Now lending splendour, where from secret springs The source of human thought its tribute brings Of waters,—with a sound but half its own, Such as a feeble brook will oft assume In the wild woods,... | |
 | 1871 - 866 pages
...dark — now glittering — now reflecting gloom — Now lending splendour, where from secret springe The source of human thought its tribute brings Of waters — with a sound but half its own, Such iis a feeble brook will oft assume In the wild woods, among the mountains lone, Where waterfalls around... | |
 | Rene Wellek - 1963 - 424 pages
...its rapid waves, Now dark — now glittering — now reflecting gloom — Now lending splendor, where from secret springs The source of human thought its...brings Of waters, — with a sound but half its own. This seems to say: There is nothing outside the mind of man, but the receptive function of the stream... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 1971 - 516 pages
...rapid waves, Now dark — now glittering — now reflecting gloom — Now lending splendour, where from secret springs The source of human thought its...mountains lone, Where waterfalls around it leap for ever, Where woods and winds contend, and a vast river Over its rocks ceaselessly bursts and raves. The poem's... | |
 | M. H. Abrams - 1975 - 494 pages
...rolls its rapid waves, Now dark—now glittering— now reiecting gloomNow lending splendour, where from secret springs The source of human thought its tribute brings Of waters—with a sound but half its own, Such as a feeble brook will oft assume In the wild woods, among... | |
 | Jerrold E. Hogle - 1989 - 433 pages
...its rapid waves, Now dark—now glittering—now reflecting gloom'— Now lending splendour, where from secret springs The source of human thought its tribute brings Of waters,—with a sound but half its own. Such as a feeble brook will oft assume In the wild woods,... | |
 | Robert Brinkley, Keith Hanley - 1992 - 396 pages
...sound of Wordsworth's poetry as it recurs, as it is revised and as it revises, so that 'Mont Blanc' has a sound but half its own 'such as a feeble brook will oft assume'. The brook then is an image for revision. When composition breaks off, the image becomes the source... | |
 | Karl Kroeber, Gene W. Ruoff - 1993 - 520 pages
...the image of the brook that Wasserman describes as exceeding "the requirements of the comparison."8 The source of human thought its tribute brings Of...mountains lone, Where waterfalls around it leap for ever, Where woods and winds contend, and a vast river Over its rocks ceaselessly bursts and raves. [II. 5-11]... | |
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