| Sharon Turner - 1844 - 452 pages
...man 1" Ibid. v. 5. p. 214. " My heart leaped up when I beheld A rainbow in the sky, So was it, ti'hin my life began ; So is it now I am a man : So be it when I shall grow old, So, let me die. The child is father of tke man. And I could wish my days to be Bound, each to each,... | |
| 1868 - 844 pages
...almost see the plumes of angels ascending and descending. Wordsworth says : — " My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky ; So was it when my...man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety."... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 pages
...Mercy gives me leave to die. 1795-6. POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF CHILDHOOD. MY heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my...man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! The Child is father of the Man ; And I could wish my days to bo Bound each to each by natural piety.... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1845 - 926 pages
...through the dam above, and was coming down upon us in a torrent. CHAPTER VII. My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my...man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...die. 1795-6. POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF CHILDHOOD. Mr heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow ul the sky : So was it when my life began ; So is it...man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! The Child is father of the Man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 544 pages
...they peopled the place with robbers and serpents, we were peopling it with sylvans and fairies. " So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old ; Or let me die ! The child is father to the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety."... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 540 pages
...they peopled the place with robbers and serpents, we were peopling it with sylvans and fairies. " So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old ; Or let me die ! The child is father to the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety."... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 520 pages
...they peopled the place with robbers and serpents, we were peopling it with sylvans and fairies. " So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old ; Or let me die ! The child is father to the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety."... | |
| George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 1847 - 374 pages
...Comas, 956 • who, for thee ordained A help, became thy snare • PL, xi. 165. My heart leaps up when I behold • A rainbow in the sky— : So was it when...man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! WORDSWORTH. * On the Period of Childhood.' when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 462 pages
...which up the hill Comes from the depth of Dungeon-Ghyll." 2 PW p. 2, line 7. " My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky; So was it when my life...man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! The Child is father of the Man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety."... | |
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