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" I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter... "
The Poets and Poetry of England, in the Nineteenth Century - Page 51
by Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 504 pages
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Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of T. Noon Talfourd ...

Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1854 - 192 pages
...world : — -" Nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days And their glad animal movements, all gone by) To me was all in all — I cannot paint...had no need of a remoter charm By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrow'd from the eye. That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more,...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 2

William Wordsworth - 1854 - 432 pages
...he loved. For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all. — I cannot paint...The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter...
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William Wordsworth: A Biography

Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 590 pages
...lengthy, and a few sentences therefore must suffice this picture of the boyhood of an enthusiast, " The sounding cataract, Haunted me like a passion :...remoter charm By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowcd from the eye." So the following sublime description of a mind dependent on nature for its...
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The modern reader and speaker

David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 pages
...days, and their glad animal movements all gone by) to me was all in all. I cannot paint what then l was. The sounding cataract haunted me like a passion;...had no need of a remoter charm by thought supplied, or any interest unborrowed from the eye. That time is past, and all its aching joys are now no more,...
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William Wordsworth: A Biography

Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 556 pages
...therefore must suffice this picture of the boyhood of an enthusiast. " The sounding cataract, Haunted mo like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and...remoter charm By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye." " For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless...
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The Popular lecturer [afterw.] Pitman's Popular lecturer (and ..., Volumes 4-6

Henry Pitman - 1316 pages
...deservedly a favourite with all the lovers of Wordsworth, " Lines written above Tintern Abbey": — I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract...wood. Their colours and their forms, were then to m« An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm By thought supplied, nor...
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The Earlier Poems of William Wordsworth: Corrected as in the Latest Editions ...

William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 pages
...he loved. For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all. — I cannot paint...remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.— That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its...
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the poetical works of william wordsworth

WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pages
...falsely pronounced to be impossible to be continuous, as Wordsworth proves himself, when he says : " The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion ;...were then to me An appetite, a feeling, and a love." But, in addition to this, Wordsworth's was a metaphysical as well as an imaginative mind, and the two...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1858 - 550 pages
...he loved. For Nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all. I cannot paint...; the tall rock, / The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, J Their colours and their forms, were then to me J Au appetite : a feeling and a love,...
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Russell's Magazine, Volume 2

Paul Hamilton Payne - 1858 - 584 pages
...cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cata ract Haunted me like a pastion; the tnll rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours,...a feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter cltarn By tJtought supplied, or any interest Vnborrowed from (he eye." And who will believe that the...
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