 For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.  The American Whig Review - Page 711851Full view - About this book
 | Henry Pitman - 1863 - 780 pages
...taste may be yet a practical, a vigorous, and a blessed power. It will be possible to say then — Not for this Faint I, nor mourn, nor murmur ; other...humanity, Nor harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. To all classes of my hearers, then, I would say — Cultivate this taste. The... | |
 | 1864 - 402 pages
...poetic taste may be yet a practical, a vigonms, and a blessed power. It will be possible to say then — Not for this Faint I, nor mourn, nor murmur ; other...humanity, Nor harsh, nor grating, though of ample powe* To chasten and subdue. To all classes of my hearers, then, I would say — Cultivate this taste.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 770 pages
...the eye. — That time is past, And all its aching joys arc now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this • Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur ; other...recompense. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour scurities, which had risen from an imperfect control over the re sources of his native... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 772 pages
...the eye. — That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur ; other...recompense. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour scurities, which had risen from an imperfect control over the re sourees of his native... | |
 | Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 pages
...will find him tenfold more a man of steel. Feathered Tribes of the British Islands. NATURE. Lesson of For I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. Lines,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...from the eye. That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn, nor murmur ; other gifts Have follow'd, for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense. For I have learn'd To look on nature,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1865 - 316 pages
...the eye. — That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur ; other...followed ; for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompence. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1865 - 318 pages
...the eye. — That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur ; other...followed ; for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompence. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1866 - 408 pages
...the eye. — That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur ; other...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1866 - 508 pages
...nor mourn nor murmur; other gifts Have followed, for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompenee. For I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And... | |
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