 | 1850 - 806 pagine
...shepherd's quiet and gentle spirit, and preferred to the bustle and the laurels of the battlefield — ' The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.' Surely, the hero and his poet both must be reckoned by the wise to have ' chosen the better part.'... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pagine
...was framed, Who, long compell'd in humble walks to go, Was softened into feeling, sooth'd, and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie, His...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. In him the savage Virtue of the Race, Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead : Nor did he change... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 pagine
...was framed. Who, long compell'd in humble walks to go, Was softened into feeling, sooth'd, and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie, His...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. In him the savage Virtue of the Race, Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead: Nor did he change;... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 606 pagine
...are born, and to know himself better than he could have done in his hereditary sphere." — p. 250. 4 Love had he found in huts, where poor men lie, , ,...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. 1 In him the savage virtue of the Race — Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead ; Nor did... | |
 | Thomas N. Brown - 1859 - 360 pagine
...certain it is, that with the most obdurate inflexibility did he decline their every solicitation. " Love had he found in huts where poor men lie, His...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills ;" and with that love and these teachers he seemed unambitious to extend the circle of his acquaintanceship,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pagine
...was framed, Who, long compelled in humble walks to go, Was softened into feeling, soothed, and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie, His...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. In him the savage Virtue of the Race, Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead : Nor did he change... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pagine
...was framed, Who, long compelled in humble walks to go, Was softened into feeling, soothed, and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie, His...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. In him the savage Virtue of the Race, Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead : Nor did he change... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 326 pagine
...was framed, Who, long compelled in humble walks to go Was softened into feeling-, soothed, and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor men lie : His...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills." The words themselves in the foregoing extracts, are, no doubt, sufficiently common for the greater... | |
 | 1823 - 782 pagine
...time-piece has struck one, we are off to Arthur's Seat. TO THE MEMOI1Y OP ROBERT BLOOMFIELD. Lore tad he found in huts where poor men lie* His daily teachers...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. WORD3WOBIH> SWEET, siini.Ir Poet, thou art gone ! And shall no parting tear be shed By those to whom... | |
 | 1817 - 708 pagine
...so far from it. The noise and the bustle of the world were immediately forgotten on contemplating " The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills." A light, as it were, broke around him, and exhibited a strange and momentary gleam of joy and of misery... | |
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Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. 
