 Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle ; sensation, soul, and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life, In such access of mind,...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 2521819Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1851 - 750 pages
...touched, And in their silent faces did he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form All melted into bun ; they swallowed up His animal being; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were... | |
 | Warren Burton - Education - 1852 - 376 pages
...That, brightly leaping down the hills, Are just set out to meet the sea." CHAPTER XXI. CONCLUSION. " His spirit drank The spectacle ; sensation, soul,...melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life." WORDSWORTH. THESE lines express... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1852 - 792 pages
...which cannot die ; But in the mountains did he feel his faith. All things, responsive to the writing, # p # Seem'd infinite ; and there his spirit shaped Her prospects, nor did he believe, — he saic. What... | |
 | John Wright - 1853 - 142 pages
...unutterable love." * Memoirs of Wordsworth, vol. ip 306. " Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul,...melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life. In such access of mind, in such... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 766 pages
...And in their silent faces did ho read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, • Nor any voice of joy : his spirit drank The spectacle ! sensation, soul,...melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live : they were his life."* * [Excursion. (Book L PW vl.... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - American literature - 1854 - 348 pages
...Mr. Berry. " The poet thought little of items. One who knows, tells us how such things are prompted : His spirit drank The spectacle sensation, soul and form, All melted Into him: they swallowed op His animal being: in them he did live, And by them he did live; they were his Ufa. 1n such access... | |
 | American literature - 1854 - 794 pages
...be read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy; his spirit drank The spiritual; sensation, soul, and form, All melted into him — they swallowed up His animal being; in them did he live — They were his life." Thus did his mind absorb into itself "beauty, the living... | |
 | Peter Bayne - Christian life - 1855 - 540 pages
...And in their silent faces could he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle ; sensation, soul, and form, All melted into him ; they swallowM up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were hU life. In... | |
 | Francis Bowen - History - 1855 - 512 pages
...ocean's liquid mass Wie&fti'YiimVKj, In gladness and deep joy Sonnd needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle ; sensation, soul, and form All melted into him In such high hour Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not ; in enjoyment it expired." The... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 444 pages
...touched, And in their silent faces did he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy. His spirit drank The spectacle ; sensation, soul,...; the least of things Seemed infinite ; and there his spirit shaped Her prospects, nor did he believe ; he saw." The relation which the consideration... | |
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