Such grateful haunts foregoing, if I oft Must turn elsewhere — to travel near the tribes And fellowships of men, and see ill sights Of madding passions mutually inflamed ; Must hear Humanity in fields and groves Pipe solitary anguish ; or must hang... The Excursion: A Poem - Page iiiby William Wordsworth - 1853 - 374 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 648 pages
...of men, and see ill sights Of madding passions mutually inflamed ; 75 Must hear Humanity in fields and groves Pipe solitary anguish ; or must hang Brooding...evermore Within the walls of cities — may these sounds 8o Have their authentic comment ; that even these Hearing, I be not downcast or forlorn ! — Descend,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 648 pages
...of men, and see ill sights Of madding passions mutually inflamed ; v 75 Must hear Humanity in fields and groves Pipe solitary anguish ; or must hang Brooding...evermore Within the walls of cities — may these sounds 8° Have their authentic comment ; that even these Hearing, I be not downcast or forlorn ! — Descend,... | |
 | Katharine Lee Bates - American literature - 1897 - 438 pages
...in the realist camp and may at any moment betray us to a brick moon or a conversational umbrella. " The fierce confederate storm Of sorrow barricadoed evermore Within the walls of cities " engages many pens. Chicago has found an observant painter in Henry Fuller, who, like Boyesen, was... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1898 - 263 pages
...rapture of Creation's hallelujah is stemmed and chastened by Humanity's cry of lonely anguish,—by ‘the fierce confederate storm of sorrow, barricadoed evermore within the walls of cities.' Yet is his cheerful faith unshaken that all which we behold is full of blessings: yet does his song—albeit... | |
 | Edward Judson - Religion - 1899 - 224 pages
...continuance is prose. Then one is pressed down with the sense of the overwhelming mass of wretchedness, " The fierce confederate storm Of sorrow barricadoed evermore Within the walls of cities." The most strenuous benevolence seems like a drop of sweetness in a bitter ocean. We seem to hear Satan's... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 392 pages
...thoughtless impulse. The poem is rambling, with fine lines, — for instance : 1888 CHANCE SAYINGS ' The fierce confederate storm Of sorrow barricadoed evermore Within the walls of cities.' " He often looked at his Virgil, more than ever delighting in what he called " that splendid end of... | |
 | Hallam Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Poets, English - 1906 - 984 pages
...of birds, driven by a thoughtless impulse. The poem is rambling, with fine lines, — for instance : 'The fierce confederate storm Of sorrow barricadoed evermore Within the walls of cities.' " He often looked at his Virgil, more than ever delighting in what he called " that splendid end of... | |
 | Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury - Characters and characteristics - 1900 - 420 pages
...whether or not Mr. Browning ever made of his optimism a deafening medium between his sensibilities and the fierce confederate storm Of sorrow, barricadoed evermore Within the walls of cities, there is always an even chance that the less sensitive will so employ the theorem. In the case of Shaftesbury... | |
 | William Copeland Bowie - Christianity - 1901 - 392 pages
...fellowships of men, and see ill sights Of madding passions mutually inflamed ; Must hear humanity in fields and groves Pipe solitary anguish ; or must hang Brooding...that even these Hearing I be not downcast or forlorn. What, then, is Wordsworth's ' authentic comment ' ? Why are we not to be ' downcast or forlorn ' ?... | |
 | w. copeland bowie - 1901 - 392 pages
...fellowships of men, and see ill sights Of madding passions mutually inflamed ; Must hear humanity in fields and groves Pipe solitary anguish ; or must hang Brooding...Of sorrow, barricadoed evermore Within the walls of cities—may these sounds Have their authentic comment, that even these Hearing I be not downcast or... | |
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