 For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with...  Cyclopædia of English literature - Page 327by Robert Chambers - 1844Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1877 - 1146 pages
...turning from theology to Christian poetry, we have the same idea wrought out by Wordsworth : — " For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...humanity. Nor harsh, nor grating, though of ample.- power To ehsstcu and suhduo. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy < >f elevated thoughts... | |
 | Constance E. Plumptre - Pantheism - 1878 - 422 pages
.... . 285 III. SERVETUS 313 IV. GIORDANO BRUNO 348 V. LUCILIO VANINI 367 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER VOL. I. For I have learned To look on Nature ; not as in the...chasten and subdue. And I have felt A Presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts ; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused,... | |
 | George Henry Calvert - Literary Criticism - 1878 - 278 pages
...continues, is past, with its "aching joys," its "dizzy raptures. He has become more thoughtful : — " For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts ; a sense sublime • / Of something far more deeply... | |
 | Constance E. Plumptre - Pantheism - 1878 - 432 pages
...285 III. SERVETUS 313 IV. GIORDANO BRUNO , . 348 V. LUCILIO VANINI 367 INTRODUCTORY CHA: :R VOL. L For I have learned To look on Nature ; not as in the...humanity, . Nor harsh, nor grating, though of ample power _To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A Presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...feeling and a love That nad no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrqwed from the eye. That time is past. And all its aching...recompense. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentnnes The stiff sad music of humanity. Nor harsh... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm By thoughts supplied, nor $O%O&O O O O/F L L %E , O@LSKvKdM L"K O OtOuOvOwOxO O K still, sad music of humanily, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 618 pages
...me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, Ky thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye. —That time...recompense. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentunes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 826 pages
...raptures. Not for this Faint I. nor mourn, nor murmur; other gifts Have followed, for such loss, 1 would believe, Abundant recompense. For I have learned...chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with 1 he joy ^ Of elevated thoughts ; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1880 - 820 pages
...them into harmony with permanent emotions of the soul, may be found in all that Wordsworth wrote : " For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts : a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 308 pages
...Haunted me like a passion ; the tall rock. The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their forms, were then to me An appetite : a feeling...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And... | |
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