 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 488 pages
...noble minds !" becomes almost invincible : for the world to him is a prison, and solitude a paradise. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly...and foaming falls to lean ; THIS is NOT SOLITUDE. But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pages
...the weary breast Would still, albeit in vain, the heavy heart divest. XXV. To sit on rocks, to mnsc o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's...falls to lean ; 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,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 pages
...flashing pang ! of which the weary breast Would still, albeit in vain, the heavy heart divest. XXV. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly...the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er sleeps and foaming falls to lean ; Tin's is not solitude ; 't is but to hold [niiroU'rl. Converse with... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 352 pages
...; A flashing pang ! of which the weary hreast Would still, alheit in vain, the heavy heart divest. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly...dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely heen ; To elimh the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone... | |
 | 1838 - 332 pages
...tear; A flashing pang ! of which the weary breast Would still, albeit in vain, the heavy heart divest. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly...'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and see her stores unroll'd. But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel,... | |
 | 1871 - 608 pages
...unsuppressed passions, the premature feeling of satiety, and the deep all-pervading despondency :— ' To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly...; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, aud view her stores unroll'd. ' But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to... | |
 | William Adam - 1838 - 300 pages
...him to remark, when dwelling on nature's beauties — " I love not man the less but nature more ;" " To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly...MORTAL FOOT HATH NE'ER OR RARELY BEEN ; To climb the tractless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and... | |
 | Caroline Howard Gilman - 1884 - 254 pages
...soul can stop a moment to think of the solitary just at his side. He says also, on the other hand : To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly...and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude. There lies before me a great city. It clusters 112 about the foot of certain hills, and its greatest... | |
 | Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 pages
...To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where wings that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot...'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and see her stores unroll'd. But, midst the crowd, the hum, the snock ol men, To hear, to see, to feel,... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1856 - 802 pages
...follow-out their pursuits upon a more extensive scale, and annually visit the Highlands of Scotland, " To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the...to lean : This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Convene with Nattue's charms, and view her stores unrolled." Were every sportsman to relate the history... | |
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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... 
