...peaceful flocks browsed in quiet joy ; the glory of sunrise, " When from the naked top Of some lofty peak he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light." were all familiar to him from a boy. Thus was his mind fed upon nature in her choicest aspects, and...

...herdsman like myself could feel : — " O then what soul was his, when, on the tops Of the high mountains, he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light ! lie looked- Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay In...

...peaceful flocks browsed in quiet joy ; the glory of sunrise, " When from the naked top Of some lofty peak he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light." were all familiar to him from a boy. Thus was his mind fed upon nature in her choicest aspects, and...

...Nature, by whatever means, has taught To feel intensely, cannot but receive. Such was the Boy—but for the growing Youth What soul was his, when, from the...beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light! He looked—200 Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, in gladness lay...

...folds of silent praise ! CHARLRS TURNRR. EXTRACT FROM "THE EXCURSION." O UCH was the boy — but for the growing youth, *~-^ What soul was his, when, from...beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light ! He looked — Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay...

...Belinda and her court would have suffered if they had been placed side by side with Wordsworth, — when from the naked top Of some bold headland, he beheld the sun Else up and bathe the world in light ! or asked, with Byron — Where mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely...

...lines as exalted as they are beautiful the reverent emotions which came to the poet as a growing youth "when from the naked top Of some bold headland, he beheld the sun Eise up, and bathe the world in light! He looked ; — Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And...

...attenuated gas." Wordsworth thus writes of the highest experience of man: Such was the Boy — but for the growing youth What soul was his, when, from the...beheld the sun Rise up and bathe the world in light! He looked — Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass beneath him lay In...

...The Excursion: but they are the record of an hour of his own boyhood. Such was the Boy — but for the growing Youth What soul was his, when from the...beheld the sun Rise up and bathe the world in light I He looked — Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, in gladness lay...

...and absolute unintelligibility ? 1 O then what soul was his, when on the tops Of 1 he high mountains he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light! He looked — Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth, And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay In...