 O Derwent ! winding among grassy holms Where I was looking on, a babe in arms, Make ceaseless music that composed my thoughts To more than infant softness, giving me Amid the fretful dwellings of mankind A foretaste, a dim earnest, of the calm That Nature...  The Dublin university magazine - Page 83by University magazine - 1851Full view - About this book
 | 1889 - 614 pages
...infancy, and as a babe in arms, the river Derwent, blending with his nurse's song, had given him ' A foretaste, a dim earnest of the calm That Nature breathes among the hills and groves.' Already he experienced, though he knew it not, the affinity of the forces within him and without. Already... | |
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...this, didst thou, O Derwent ! winding among grassy holms Where I was looking on, a babe in arms, Make ceaseless music that composed my thoughts To more...calm That Nature breathes among the hills and groves ?" — p. 14. No ! he is unable to restrain his voice, and now presses onward with the story of his... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1850 - 388 pages
...this, didst thou, O Derwent ! winding among grassy holms Where I was looking on, a babe in arms, Make ceaseless music that composed my thoughts To more...those towers That yet survive, a shattered monument CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL TIME, Of feudal sway, the bright blue river passed Along the margin of our terrace... | |
 | 1850 - 544 pages
...this, didst thou, O Derwent ! winding among grassy holms Where I was looking on, a babe in arms, Make ceaseless music that composed my thoughts To more than infant softness, giving me Amid the fretfuj dwellings of mankmd A foretaste, a dim earnest, of the calm That Nature breathes among the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 750 pages
...this, didst thou, O Derwent ! winding among grassy holms Where I was looking on, a babe in arms, Make ceaseless music that composed my thoughts To more...! On his smooth breast the shadow of those towers I That yet survive, a shattered monument I Of feudal sway, the bright blue river passed | Along the... | |
 | 1851 - 778 pages
...didst tliou, O, Derwent ! winding among grassy holms, Where I was looking on, a babe in arms, Make ceaseless music, that composed my thoughts To more...received On his smooth breast, the shadow of those toweri That yet survive, a shattered monument Of feudal sway ; the bright blue river passed Along the... | |
 | 1851 - 1220 pages
...this didst thou, 0 Derwent! -winding among grassy holms Where I waa looking on, a babe in arms. Make ceaseless music that composed my thoughts To more...calm That Nature breathes among the hills and groves ! " The river, which passed along the terracewalk of his home, on whose breast fell the shadows of... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 432 pages
...this, didst thou, O Derwent ! winding among grassy holms Where I was looking on, a babe in arms, Make ceaseless music that composed my thoughts To more...those towers That yet survive, a shattered monument Of feqdal sway, the bright blue river passed Along the margin of our terrace walk ; A tempting playmate... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 776 pages
...(hi.*, didst tio. O Derwent! winding among grassy holms Where I was looking on, a babe in arms, Make ceaseless music that composed my thoughts To more...the calm That Nature breathes among the hills and grores! When he had left the mountains and receiveJ On his smooth breast the shadow of those lowen... | |
 | 1868 - 902 pages
...Forthisdidst thou, O Derwent ! winding among grassy holms Where I was looking on, a babe in arms, Make ceaseless music, that composed my thoughts To more...calm That Nature breathes among the hills and groves f" Wordsworth's life was an exemplification of the doctrine he taught. Cheerfulness and peace marked... | |
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