 Within the soul a faculty abides, That with interpositions, which would hide And darken, so can deal that they become Contingencies of pomp ; and serve to exalt Her native brightness. As the ample moon, In the deep stillness of a summer even Rising behind...  The Excursion: A Poem - Page 152by William Wordsworth - 1853 - 374 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1814 - 476 pages
...and full oft beset With floating dreams, disconsolate and black, The vapoury phantoms of futurity ? Within the soul a Faculty abides, That with interpositions,...would hide And darken, so can deal, that they become Contingences of pomp ; and serve to exalt Her native brightness. As the ample Moon, In the deep stillness... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1815 - 558 pages
...of limitless desires. — p. 148. With the same modifying and incorporating power, he tells us,— Within the soul a faculty abides That with interpositions,...the ample moon, In the deep stillness of a summer eve, Rising behind a thick and lofty grove, Burns like an unconsuming fire of light In the green trees... | |
 | 1816 - 676 pages
...such tales as ' Margaret,' and ' Ellen," and poetry of so lofty a pitch as the passage beginning — ' As the ample moon, in the deep stillness of a summer even,' 8cc., or the fine description of the graceful youth in the ' Excursion,' should place a monster upon... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1818 - 320 pages
...The Vale of Covadonga 122 24. Roderick and Count Julian 133 25. Roderick in Battle 148 NOTES...., 175 As the ample Moon, In the deep stillness of a summer even Rising behind a thick and lofty Grove, Burns like an unconsuming fire of light In the green trees; and kindling on all sides Their leafy umbrage,... | |
 | Robert Southey - Visigoths - 1818 - 310 pages
...23. The Vale of Covadonga 122 24. Roderick and Count Julian 133 25. Roderick in Battle 148 NOTES 175 As the ample Moon, In the deep stillness of a summer even Rising behind a thick and lofty Grove, Burns like an unconsuming fire of light In the green trees; and kindling on all sides Their leafy umbrage,... | |
 | Literature - 1825 - 412 pages
...of our extracts, wishing that we had room for many more such which are scattered through the book. Within the soul a Faculty abides, That with interpositions,...summer even Rising behind a thick and lofty Grove, Burns like an uncousuming fire of light, In the green trees ; and, kindling on all sides Their leafy... | |
 | Literature - 1825 - 426 pages
...of our extracts, wishing that we had room for many more such which are scattered through the book. Within the soul a Faculty abides. That with interpositions,...native brightness. As the ample Moon. In the deep stiDness of a summer even Rising behind a thick and loftv Grove, Burns like an unconsuming ore of light.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 452 pages
...and full oft beset With floating dreams, disconsolate and black, The vapoury phantoms of futurity ? Within the soul a Faculty abides, That with interpositions,...Summer Even Rising behind a thick and lofty grove, Burns like an unconsuming fire of light, In the green trees; and, kindling on all sides Their leafy... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1839 - 512 pages
...The following extract is at once a splendid description and illustration of this mental power : — " Within the soul a faculty abides That, with interpositions...summer even Rising behind a thick and lofty grove Burns, like an unconsnming fire of light, In the green trees ; and, kindling on all sides Their leafy... | |
 | Mary Richardson (ady.) - 1837 - 986 pages
...course." " I fancy I do, but I may forget my lesson." — He then repeated the following lines : " Within the soul a faculty abides That with interpositions,...summer even, Rising behind a thick and lofty grove, Burns like an unconsuming fire of light In the green trees ; and, kindling on all sides Their leafy... | |
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