 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, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with...  The North American Review - Page 354publié par - 1844Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | David Smith - 1903 - 172 pages
...employments I may surprise you, in these also will I judge you.' " WONDER THE BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE "I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour...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... | |
 | 1904 - 738 pages
...thoughts in regard to the beautiful in nature are best expressed in the following lines from Wordsworth. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity . . . And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with a joy Of elevated... | |
 | 1904 - 1064 pages
...by the familiar lines from Wordsworth's " Tintern Abbey," as expressing the character of Stockwell : 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, Not harsh or grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. Ami... | |
 | 1904 - 546 pages
...part of "Tintern Abbey," he refers to the time as past when Nature was to him all in all, and says : I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity. This brings us to another most noteworthy characteristic of Wordsworth's... | |
 | John Marshall, Orlando John Stevenson - 1904 - 296 pages
...mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight of 'ill this unintelligible world la lightened. or I have learned To look on nature not Os in the hour Of thoughtless youth but, hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity. and derisively seized on lines like Poor Susan moans, poor Susan groans.... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1906 - 548 pages
...mourn nor murmur ; other gifts Have followed : for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense. For I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the...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... | |
 | 1906 - 524 pages
...emotions? Have not all who can understand this passage of Wordsworth accepted it as virtually true? " I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity. .... And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1906 - 320 pages
...again : — " 0 Sylvan Wye ! thou wanderer thro' the woods, How often has my spirit turned to thee ! I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the hour...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity I Nor harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.... | |
 | Charles Cuthbert Hall - 1906 - 310 pages
..."the sounding cataract, the tall rock, the mountain, the deep and gloomy wood" near Tintern Abbey: — "I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated... | |
 | Hector Macpherson - 1907 - 354 pages
...given in the following lines the fundamental conception of Existence which underlies all his poetry : " For I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the...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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