| George Meredith - 1897 - 280 pagine
...hums, My springs of seeing swerve, For half a wink to thrill and think The woods with nymphs alive. IV I neighbour the invisible So close that my consent...for spirits masked To leap from trees and flowers. 16 And this because with them I dwell In thought, while calmly bent To read the lines dear Earth designs... | |
| George Macaulay Trevelyan - 1906 - 266 pagine
...to which we listen hour by hour in the perfect midday silence, breeds fancy as well as thought : — I neighbour the invisible So close that my consent...the lines dear Earth designs Shall speak her life on ours.2 There is no wonder then that, in his Woods of Westermain, he chooses a forest to stand allegorically... | |
| 1910 - 332 pagine
...hums, My springs of seeing swerve, For half a wink to thrill and think The woods with nymphs alive. I neighbour the invisible So close that my consent...she says; it is not hard In woods; but she in towns Or shrunk with horrors, sure reward We have whom knowledge crowns; Who see in mould the rose unfold,... | |
| George Meredith, George Macaulay Trevelyan - 1912 - 658 pagine
...hums, My springs of seeing swerve, For half a wink to thrill and think The woods with nymphs alive. IV I neighbour the invisible So close that my consent...says ; it is not hard In woods ; but she in towns Or shrunk with horrors, sure reward We have whom knowledge crowns ; Who see in mould the rose unfold,... | |
| George Meredith, George Macaulay Trevelyan - 1912 - 656 pagine
...My springs of seeing swerve, For half a wink to thrill and think The woods with nymphs alive. f IV { I neighbour the invisible So close that my consent...dear Earth designs Shall speak her life on ours.) V C Accept, she says ; it is not hard In woods ; but she in towns Repeats, accept ; and have we wept,... | |
| George Meredith - 1914 - 264 pagine
...nymphs alive. IT I neighbour the invisible So close that my consent Is only asked for spirits masked o leap from trees and flowers. And this because with...lines dear Earth designs Shall speak her life on ours. v Accept, she says ; it is not hard In woods ; but she in towns Repeats, accept ; and have we wept,... | |
| Louise Collier Willcox - 1917 - 330 pagine
...hums, My springs of seeing swerve, For half a wink to thrill and think The woods with nymphs alive. I neighbour the invisible So close that my consent...she says; it is not hard In woods; but she in towns Or shrunk with horrors, sure reward We have whom knowledge crowns; Who see in mould the rose unfold,... | |
| Ella Constance Sykes, Sir Percy Sykes - 1920 - 458 pagine
...and the desert seemed as if it were listening for I knew not what, reminding me of Meredith's lines : I neighbour the invisible So close that my consent...for spirits masked To leap from trees and flowers. The servants and horses had disappeared round the ruined rest-house, and I had a queer sense that things... | |
| Ella Constance Sykes, Sir Percy Sykes - 1920 - 462 pagine
...for I knew not what, reminding me of Meredith's lines : I neighbour the invisible So close that raj' consent Is only asked for spirits masked To leap from trees and flowers. The servants and horses had disappeared round the ruined rest-house, and I had a queer sense that things... | |
| Elizabeth Amelia Sharp, J. Matthay - 1924 - 520 pagine
...hums, My springs of seeing swerve, For half a wink to thrill and think The woods with nymphs alive. IV. I neighbour the invisible So close that my consent...lines dear Earth designs Shall speak her life on ours. V. Accept, she says ; it is not hard In woods ; but she in towns Repeats, accept ; and have we wept,... | |
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