 | Caleb Thomas Winchester - 1916 - 330 pages
...tranquillity, So calm and still, and looked so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which filled my mincL That what we feel of sorrow and despair <- >^ From...ruin and from change, and all the grief The passing shows of being leave behind Appeared an idle dream. Excursion I, 942-952. And while he is always thus... | |
 | Raymond Williams - 1975 - 356 pages
...tranquillity, So calm and still, and looked so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which filled my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin and from, change, and all the grief That passing shows of Being leave behind, Appeared an idle dream. Characteristically, in this, it is... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1977 - 308 pages
...tranquillity, So calm and still, and looked so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which filled my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin...idle dream that could not live Where meditation was. [11. 513-524] Before seeing the spear-grass, his state had been roughly equivalent to the narrator's... | |
 | Basil Willey - 1980 - 310 pages
...tranquillity, So calm and still, and look'd so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which fill'd my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief The passing shows of Being leave behind, Appear'd an idle dream, that could not live Where meditation was. I turn'd... | |
 | Tom Henighan - 1982 - 300 pages
...tranquillity. So calm and still, and looked so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which filled my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin...meditation was. I turned away, And walked along my road in happiness."5 The poet carries away from Armytage or Matthew, no formula of wisdom, but the power of... | |
 | Jerome J. McGann - 1985 - 182 pages
...tranquility, So calm and still, and looked so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which filled my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin...turned away, And walked along my road in happiness." (5 13-24) "The Ruined Cottage" is an exemplary case of what commentators mean when they speak of the... | |
 | James Chandler - 1984 - 338 pages
...tranquillity, So calm and still, and looked so beautiful, Amid the uneasy thoughts which filled my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin...turned away And walked along my road in happiness. [118-35] These lines describe a passage from "sorrow" to "happiness" that occurs in "meditation." The... | |
 | Peter J. Manning - 1990 - 338 pages
...tranquillity, So calm and still, and looked so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which filled my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief That passing shows of Being leave behind, Appeared an idle dream . . . (I, 939-52) As de Selincourt... | |
 | Stuart Curran - 1993 - 330 pages
...tranquility," of "the high spear-grass on the wall, / By mist and silent rain-drops silvered o'er," so that all we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin and from change,...dream that could not live Where meditation was... (514-24)'* We have surely become more, not less, aware, in our own century, that there is indeed that... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Alan G. Hill - 1967 - 404 pages
...See Ex.2 p. 3 1 Last Edition Again, he is one who while his mind is filled with uneasy thoughts, says That what we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief The passing shows of being leave behind appeared an idle dream that could not live where meditation was.3 ibid... | |
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So still an image of tranquillity, So calm and still, and looked so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which filled my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief The passing shows of Being leave behind,... 
