 Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature. Mighty winds That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of ocean on his winding shore...  The London Quarterly Review - Page 2901811Full view - About this book
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 pages
...issues Was man created', but to obey the law Of life and hope and action. Nor rural sights alone', but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. Man hath no part in all this glorious work ; The hand that built the firmament, hath heaved And smoothed... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 620 pages
...those that I describe. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, F.xhilarate the spirit and restore fbc b7 C D E E[E C EF B =0A E E E25 far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 790 pages
...interesting to compare with this the poetical expression of the same thought. " Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature . . . Nature inanimate employs sweet sounds, But animated nature sweeter still, To soothe or satisfy... | |
 | William Cowper - 1852 - 466 pages
...novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years : Praise justly due to those that I descrihe. Nor rural sights alone, hut rural sounds, Exhilarate...Nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash ot Ocean on his winding shore,... | |
 | 1852 - 512 pages
...spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The...his winding shore, And lull the spirit while they nil the mind ; UnnumberM branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast fluttering, all at... | |
 | 1852 - 196 pages
...anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought. (Bitrnrt PBOM COWPBR'S TASK. NOR rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit and restore The...Nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood. Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore,... | |
 | Class-book - 1852 - 152 pages
...inimitable feats, As she with all her rules can never reach. Country Soun&B. NOR rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The...Nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore,... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 pages
...meadow's bloom, — We then may say the May is come. CLARE. RURAL SOUNDS. NOR rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The...Nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore,... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1852 - 344 pages
...Speech and Epithets employed, according to No. 242. 251. RURAL Sovnas. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The...nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore,... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. SlIAKSPEAUE. mrafrs. NOR rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The...Nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore,... | |
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