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 - Página 12por William Cowper - 1811 - 212 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Cowper - 1847 - 556 páginas
...those that I describe. 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,... | |
| Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 páginas
...sweets. RURAL SOUNDS. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature. Mighty winds, That sweep...branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast flutt ring, all at once. Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer... | |
| William Cowper - 1849 - 508 páginas
...those that I describe. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit and restore The tone of languid Nature. Mighty winds, That sweep...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... | |
| Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - 1899 - 768 páginas
...Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirts of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make...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... | |
| Robert McWilliam - 1900 - 644 páginas
...baauty of sounds in nature : Not rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. Mighty winds That sweep...branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast fluttering, all at once. In the second book there are the indignant lines on slavery, but the fourth... | |
| 1900 - 570 páginas
...that is outspread below. Nor rural sights alone, bnt rural Bounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature. Mighty winds, That sweep...branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast fluttering, all at once. Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer... | |
| Goodloe Harper Bell - 1900 - 612 páginas
...those that 1 describe. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. Mighty winds, That sweep...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 - 1900 - 346 páginas
...those that I describe. 180 Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirit, and restore 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 ; Unnumbered... | |
| 1901 - 106 páginas
...(From TJie Task, Book I.) NOR rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature. Mighty winds, That sweep...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... | |
| Arthur Max Hantsche - 1901 - 160 páginas
...skirt of some far spreading wood »Of ancient growth make music not unlike »The dash o t' ocean on bis winding shore, »And lull the spirit while they fill...branches waving in the blast, »And all their leaves fast fluttering, all at once.« (IX, S. 70, Vers 181 — 196.) Auch der besänftigende Zauber des fernen... | |
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