 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1851 - 144 páginas
...and enchanting regions, — regions which, to all that is lovely in the forms and colours of earth, " Add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the pnet'a dream." A motion of the hand brings all Arcadia to sight. The war of Troy can, at our bidding,... | |
 | George Searle Phillips - 1852 - 314 páginas
...have fancied that the mighty deep Was even the gentlest of all gentle things. Ah ! tfien, if mine bad been the painter's hand, To express what then I saw...and the poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, tbou hoary pile ! Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea that could not cease to smile... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1852 - 330 páginas
...their wounded Thammuz mourn." DAMASCUS " Es Sham, Shereef: the beautiful, the blessed." "Ah I if but mine had been the Painter's hand To express what then...sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream." Wordsworth. " Air rather gardenny I should say."— MelmiUe's Moby-Dick. " Nor shall the garden during... | |
 | 1853 - 588 páginas
...yield themselves to the indolence of despair — the ennui of disappointment — Becanse they fail " to add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land ; The consecration, and the poct's dream." He who pronounced his work good at the creation, merely used the term good adjectively.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 766 páginas
...at once an instance and an illustration, he does indeed to all thoughts and to all objects — • add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream."* I shall select a few examples as most obviously manifesting this faculty ; but if I should ever be fortunate... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1854 - 630 páginas
...landscape." Nay, as Wordsworth expresses it, true poetry does to all thoughts and to all objects " Add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream." The musical beauty of language, the measure and the rhyme which the poet adopts, tends to keep in view... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1856 - 380 páginas
...Thammuz mourn." DAMASCUS. "Ea Sham, Shereef: the beautiful, the blessed." " Ah 1 if but mine had beea the Painter's hand To express what then I saw, and...sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream." Wordsworth. "Air rather gardenny I should say."— Melville's Moby-Dick. • " Nor shall the garden... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - 1856 - 362 páginas
...are at once an instance and an illustration, he does, indeed, to all thoughts and to all objects, ' add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream.' " With much, nay, with almost all of this, I am quite disposed to agree ; but then it applies only... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 418 páginas
...did not prescribe a limit to his material excursions. It is that for him unconsciously is added • The gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream." "Analogous to the deceits in life," says a great author, "there is a similar effect on the eye from... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 páginas
...: I could have fancied that the mighty Deep Was even the gentlest of all gentle Things. Ah ! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what...tranquil land, beneath a sky of bliss. Thou shouldst have seemed a treasure-house divine* Of peaceful years ; a chronicle of heaven ; — Of all the sunbeams... | |
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Ah! then, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw; and add the gleam The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the Poet's dream; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile! 
