 | 1822 - 696 pages
...Where light and shade repose, where music dwells Lingering — and wand'ring on as loth to die, Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality." 4 We also point out the Sonnets on ' Cranmer,' the second *' on the Dissolution of the Monasteries/... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 482 pages
...Where light and shade repose, where music dwells Lingering — and wandering on as loth to die ; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality. XXXIII. THE SAME* WHAT awful perspective ! while from our sight With gradual stealth the lateral windows... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1899 - 308 pages
...Where light and shade repose, where music dwells Lingering — and wandering on as loth to die ; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality. WHAT awful perspective ! while from our sight The Same With gradual stealth the lateral windows hide... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1829 - 456 pages
...ijtej3k:dn<l innocent nature. In intellect ; and-.-attaionuent's he kept pace with his age, ' Vnibre' stirring and intellectual one than any which had gone...MORE. Those great legislative measures whereby the character of a nation is changed and stamped, are more practicable in a barbarous age, than in one... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1829 - 462 pages
...crown than a terrestrial one. This country was not worthy of him, ..scarcely this earth! MONTESINOS. There is a homely verse common in village churchyards,...MORE. Those great legislative measures whereby the character of a nation is changed and stamped, are more practicable in a barbarous age, than in one... | |
 | 1840 - 548 pages
...Where light and shade repose, where music dwells Lingering — and wandering on as loth to die ; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality." WORDSWORTH. Hark ! in a remote aisle awakes a melodious anthem ; the tide of song rolls nearer and... | |
 | 1837 - 656 pages
...of Christian kindliness, shed over it a light from heaven, and peopled it with divine fancies and " Thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality." ART. II. — New and Conclusive Physical Demonstrations, bol/i of the Fad and Period of the Mosaic... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1838 - 478 pages
...of Christian kindliness, shed over it a light from heaven, and peopled it with divine fancies and " Thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality." Although he numbered among his associates freethinkers and skeptics, he had a great dislike to any... | |
 | Henry Alford - 1842 - 220 pages
...continued progress to corruption and death which he sees around him? There are again, in these our hearts, thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality : but who shall say that these could make their feeble testimony of comfort and peace heard, amidst... | |
 | 1892 - 890 pages
...land? What are they but noble poems in stone, the epics of architecture, petrifactions of beauty — Thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality ? It was strange indeed that men's eyes should have been so long blind to artwork so exquisite; but... | |
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... rejects the lore Of nicely-calculated less or more ; So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof Self-poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells, Where light and shade repose, where music dwells Lingering... 
