 | 1836 - 386 pages
...murmuring rill. " To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And...to lean; This is not solitude — 'tis but to hold Converse with nature's claims, and see her stores unroll'd." Two or three miles above the perpendicular... | |
 | 1836 - 802 pages
...murmuring rilL " To ßit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And...the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er ptceps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude — 'tis but to hold Converse with nature's... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pages
...divest. XXV. To sit on rocks, to mnsc o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And...This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold [unroll'd. Comers« with Nature's charras, and view her stores XXVI. But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 pages
...heart divest. To sit on rooks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And...mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the truckler mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming... | |
 | 1860 - 468 pages
...least. • To sit on rocks, and muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And...to lean : This is not solitude : 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled. But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock... | |
 | Albert Brecknock - 1926 - 344 pages
...solitude : " To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell. And...been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, Alone." 1 Moore's Byron, pp. 644, 645. • Gait's Life of Byron. And again : " Oh I that the desert... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1813 - 824 pages
...heart divert. To sit on rocks, to muse o$f flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion .dwell, And...ne'er, or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain f\\ unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean... | |
 | 1884 - 262 pages
...WEDNESDAY. " To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been." " In changeful shapes the shadows fall On rugged Higger Tor, A mellow'd glory fills the dell, And gilds... | |
 | Arthur Compton-Rickett - 1906 - 246 pages
...trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot had ne'er or rarely been. To climb the trackless mountain...to lean—- This is not solitude : 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd." This most certainly would have been solitude... | |
 | Philip W. Martin - 1982 - 268 pages
...to Thomson: To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And...falls to lean; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd. But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock... | |
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To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er, or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never... 
