 | 1889 - 614 pagine
...working upon the passive impression blended thought and matter, produced the new creation, and added ' the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream.' But this creative work of the imagination is only possible j when the relations of Nature with man... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 pagine
...gentle Things. 141 Ah! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ! Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea that... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pagine
...all gentle Things. Ah ! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ! Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea that... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pagine
...Things. VOL. II. z Ah ! THEM, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ! Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea that... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pagine
...Things. VOL. II. Z 337 Ah ! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ' Amid a world how different from this } Beside a sea that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 pagine
...being. It were difficult to name any thing else of human workmanship so thoroughly transfigured with "the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream." The celestial and the earthly are here so commingled, — commingled, but not confounded, — that... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 316 pagine
...stands nearest of all modern writers to Shakespear and Milton ; and yet in a kind perfectly un borrowed and his own. To employ his own words, which are at...or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream." 172 I shall select a few examples as most obviously manifesting this faculty ; but if I should ever... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1832 - 378 pagine
...all gentle Tilings. Ah ! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ! Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea that... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1834 - 368 pagine
...stands nearest of all modern writers to Shakspeare and Milton : and yet in a kind perfectly unborrowed and his own. To employ his own words, which are at...objects — * add the gleam, The light that never was on son or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream." I shall select a few examples as most obviously... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1834 - 632 pagine
...cloud or vapours ; — but it is something more than these, something beyond, and over all — . . The gleam, The light that never was on sea or land The consecration, and the poet's dream ! Genoa, 30. We arrived here late, and I should not write now, weary, weak, sick, and down-spirited... | |
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Ah ! then if mine had been the painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream... 
