 Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore...  The Task: A Poem. In Six Books - Страница 19написао/ла William Cowper - 1810 - 193 страницаПуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | William Cowper - 1849 - 740 страница
...placuit semel, « decies repetiu placcbit." liar. S " Sustain, Thou only canst, the sick of heart, The tone of languid nature. Mighty winds That sweep...far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike 185 The dash of ocean on his winding shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind, Unnumber'd... | |
 | William Cowper - 1850 - 516 страница
...: Praise justly due to those that I describe. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit and restore The tone of languid Nature....his winding shore, , And lull the spirit while they fitl the mind ; Unnumbered branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast fluttering, all... | |
 | 1901 - 106 страница
...people. EURAL SOUNDS. (From TJie Task, Book I.) NOR rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature....shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind ; Unnumbered branches waving in the blast, And" all their leaves fast fluttering, all at once. Nor... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1902 - 360 страница
...for fine things, I will allow myself another: ' Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit and restore The tone of languid nature,...not unlike The dash of ocean on his winding shore Through the cleft rock, and chiming as they fall Upon loose pebbles, lose themselves at length In matted... | |
 | Alban Bertram De Mille - 1902 - 546 страница
...gracious open-air noises come to our ears. Mighty winds That sweep the skirt of some far spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of ocean on his winding shore, Unnumbered branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast fluttering all at once. For over... | |
 | Henry Norman, Henry Chalmers Roberts - 1903 - 706 страница
...the hills, or a river, are there not trees which, fiercely swept or gently breathed on by the wind, " make music not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore " ? At night, as I stroll under my own cottage elms or rest indoors, every detail of those lines of... | |
 | Canniff Haight - 1904 - 684 страница
...murmuring brooks, and through sheltered lanes ! " Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature....not unlike The dash of ocean on his winding shore." We come now to the garrison town of Weedon, not far from which is Althorp. the seat of the Earl of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - 916 страница
...PjtBise jnstly due to those that I describe. 180 Nor ruralsTghts alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature....shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind, Unnumbered branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast fluttering/all at once. Nor less... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - 716 страница
...those that I describe. 180 !ETor rural sights alone, but rural sounds. Exhilarate . thejpml, anicT restore The; tone of ' languid Nature. Mighty winds,...shore. And lull the spirit while they fill the mind ; Unnumber'd branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast flutt'ring, all at once. Nor less... | |
 | 1864 - 612 страница
...expressed by Cowper in the well-known passage : " Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature....shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind," &c. Had there been nothing else in the pagan pastoral than the lore and legends of a false creed, it... | |
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