William Cowper, sein naturgefühl und seine naturdichtung: Ein beitrag zur geschichte des naturgefühls in England ...

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Lehmannsche buchdruckerei, 1901 - 139 páginas
 

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Página 35 - Delighted. There fast rooted in his bank »Stand, never overlook'd, our favourite elms »That screen the herdsman's solitary hut; »While far beyond and overthwart the stream »That as with molten glass inlays the vale, »The sloping land recedes into the clouds, »Displaying on its varied side the grace »Of hedge-row beauties numberless
Página 60 - May give a useful lesson to the head, »And learning wiser grow without his books. »Knowledge and wisdom far from being one »Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells »In heads replete with thoughts of other men,
Página 39 - The morning sharp and clear. But now at noon »Upon the southern side of the slant hills, »The season smiles. resigning all its rage, »And has the warmth of May! The vault is blue »Without a cloud, and white without a speck »The dazzling splendour of the scene below.
Página 49 - Like homely-featured night, of clustering gems, »A star or two just twinkling on thy brow »Suffices thee ; save that the moon is thine »No less than hers, not worn indeed on high »With ostentations pageantry, but set »With modest grandeur in thy purple zone »Resplendent less, but of an ampler round.
Página 67 - cottager, who weaves at her own door, »Pillow and bobbins all her little store, «Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay »Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, »Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night »Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light.
Página 39 - 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
Página 126 - But there I laid the scene. There early stray'd »My fancy, ere yet liberty of choice »Had found me, or the hope of being free. »My very dreams were rural, rural too »The first born efforts of my youthful muse »Sportive, and jingling her poetic bells »Ere yet her ear was mistress
Página 45 - the upright shafts of those tall elms »We may discern the thresher at his task. »Thump after thump, resounds the constant flail »That seems to swing uncertain, and yet falls »Full on the destined ear. Wide flies the chaff »The rustling straw sends up a frequent mist »Of atoms sparkling in the noon-day beam.
Página 80 - From dearth to plenty and from death to life, »Is Nature's progress when she lectures man »In heavenly truth; evincing as she makes »The grand transition, that there lives and works »A soul in all things and that soul is God.
Página 48 - There sit involved and lost in curling clouds »Of Indian fume, and guzzling deep, the boor, »The lacquey and the groom. The craftsman there »Takes a Lethaean leave of all his toil; »Smith, cobler, joiner, he that plies the sheers »And he that kneads the dough : all loud alike, »All learned and

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