 I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell ; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings...  School and Home Education - Page 2841899Full view - About this book
 | George Frederick Graham - English language - 1849 - 380 pages
...The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. WORDSWORTH. ' The Solitary Reaper.' 1 have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy j for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Alps - 1848 - 242 pages
...Poet Wordsworth, in one of his most beautiful strains of imagery, " I have seen A curious child, that dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his...To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intently ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joj : for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous... | |
 | John William Lester - English literature - 1848 - 112 pages
...take this fine passage on a seashell, and observe how strikingly this opinion is borne out : — 1 have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The conTolutions of a smooth lipped shell ; To which in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely;... | |
 | Caroline Howard Gilman - Quotations - 1848 - 320 pages
...here in this garden ? LADY. Madam, we'll play at bowls. Richard Second. 37. To see A curious child, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped...shell, To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listens intently, and his countenance soon Brightens with joy, for murmuring within Is heard sonorous... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 pages
...speculative pains, Opinion, ever changing ! I have seen Л curious child, who dwelt upon a tract ( )f inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions...soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Ilrightened with joy ; for from within were heard Murmuring», whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious... | |
 | Morning call - 1850 - 618 pages
...the glory of its illuminating sun. " I have seen," says the poet Wordsworth, A curious child, that dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his...To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intently ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous... | |
 | Anne Pratt - Botany - 1850 - 372 pages
...dreamed that they told of the rising tide. Our philosophic poet Wordsworth alluded to this : — " I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a thick-lipp'd shell, To which in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intensely ; and his countenance... | |
 | George Johnston - Mollusks - 1850 - 634 pages
...of his whelk, of storms at sea, and of the fluxes of the tide ! For, with Wordsworth, I have oftimes seen " A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of...ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell ; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intensely, and his countenance... | |
 | Henry Harbaugh - Heaven - 1851 - 328 pages
...everlasting ruin ! CHAPTER IV. !>iltnpDtljt} bitmttn 33mnt unit <fattlj. "I have seen A curious child, that dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his...To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intently; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for, murmuring from within Were heard, sonorous... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1852 - 792 pages
...By the inferior faculty that moulds, With her minute and speculative pains, Opinion, ever changing ! horn they stretch an' strive, Deil tak the hindmost,...drive, Till a' their weel-swall'd kytes belyve Are smooth-lipp'd shell ; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intensely; and his countenance... | |
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