 | Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett - 384 pages
...whole self idealized and etherealized as it were into spirituality ; 'twas night, and I was repeating To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the poet's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell. And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely... | |
 | 1834 - 536 pages
...Much, indeed, does that man deserve our pity, who cannot feel as did the poet, when he exclaimed — To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, \Vhcre things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb... | |
 | Thomas Dyke (the younger.) - 1834 - 380 pages
...the soft open air at Interlaken ye were totally eclipsed. CHAPTER VIII. VALLEY OF LAUTERBRUNNEN. " To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, . . To climb the trackless mountain,— This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1834 - 432 pages
...study of the artist, and the zealous patronage of the Englishman. ET THOUGHTS ON THE MALVERN HILLS. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest shady scene To climb the trackless mountain, — This is not solitude, 'tis but to hold Converse... | |
 | 320 pages
...of the artist, and the zealous patronage of the Englishman. ET THOUGHTS ON THE MALVERN HILLS. To ait on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest shady scene ... To climb the trackless mountain, — This is not solitude, 'tis but to hold... | |
 | 1835 - 272 pages
...Much, indeed, does that man deserve our pity, who cannot feel as did the poet, when he exclaimed — To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 pages
...tear; A flashing pang ! of which the weary breast Would still, albeit in vain, the heavy heart divest. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb... | |
 | 1836 - 784 pages
...worthy of a poet and a philosopher, and in which he pays homage to the enchantments of natural beauty. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er, or rarely been ; To climb... | |
 | 1836 - 386 pages
...heard but the notes of melody and joy, in delightful unison with the tones of the murmuring rill. " To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been; To climb... | |
 | William Henry Bartlett, William Beattie - 1836 - 374 pages
...of thy soul, as thou of them ? Is not the love of these deep in thy heart With a pure passion ?" " To sit on rocks — to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er, or rarely been ; To climb... | |
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To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never... 
