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| William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 pages
...touched, And in their silent faces did he read 0nutterable 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. In such access of mind, in such... | |
| Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...touched, And in their silent faces did he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; distempers that are occasioned by excess, there is...them. Jonei of lïai/lar. . !. FOOL— Characteristic ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life In such access of mind, in such... | |
| Norman Macleod - 1862 - 258 pages
...touch'd, 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 him ; they swallow' d up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live : they were his life.... | |
| William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1863 - 726 pages
...And in their silent faces did he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; bis spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and...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 tuck acceu of mind, in ittcfi... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 770 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,...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 t. W.... | |
| Meyer Howard Abrams - Romanticism - 1973 - 564 pages
...things, and the moral effect of this way of seeing was to inform his own being with a sublime humility: There littleness was not, the least of things Seemed infinite, and there his spirit shaped Her prospects, nor did he believe — he saw, What wonder if his being thus became... | |
| Robert F. Gleckner - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 356 pages
...realized the ideas of the former." Wordsworth occasionally wished to say something of the sort : ... his spirit drank The spectacle. Sensation, soul, and...melted into him. They swallowed up His animal being; in them did he live And by them did he live. They were his life. But this is both more than the epistemology... | |
| Mary Breckinridge - Medical - 1981 - 404 pages
...the hills of Athol: But in the mountains did he feel his faith. All things responsive to the writing, there Breathed immortality, revolving life, And greatness...not; the least of things Seemed infinite; and there his spirit shaped Her prospects, nor did he believe,— he saw. 19 To break our journey from Russia... | |
| William Wordsworth - Literary Collections - 1985 - 84 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...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... | |
| Anthony John Harding - History - 1985 - 208 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...melted into him; they swallowed up His animal being; in them did he live. And by them did he live; they were his life."1 The Wanderer is not Wordsworth,... | |
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