 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 sidor
...yet from the abyss is caught again, And yet again recovered l SONNETS. * [THE GAINS OF RESTRAINT.] fret not at their convent's narrow room ; And hermits...bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest Peak of Furness-fells, Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells : In truth the prison, unto which we doom... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 860 sidor
...caught again, SONNETS. [THE GAINS OF RESTRAINT.] Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room ; 0And hermits are contented with their cells ; And students...bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest Peak of Furness-fells, Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells : In truth the prison, unto which we doom... | |
 | 1894 - 706 sidor
...where the deer's swift leap Startles the wild bee from the foxglove bulL" 1 1 Compare Wordsworth :— " Bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest peak...Furness Fells, Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bella." Is the line of Keats an echo or merely a coincidence ? Such intuitive familiarity with the... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1895 - 536 sidor
...following out the train of thought suggested to my own mind : and though, as Wordsworth writes — Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room, And hermits are contented with their cell, I could sometimes feel inclined to fret at the narrow limits of artistic illustration within... | |
 | 1922 - 492 sidor
...list? To this question there is but one answer: Adopt this career only if you like it for itself alone: "Hermits are contented with their cells And students with their pensive citadels." Let no man too querulously measure by a scale of profit what shall be his life work. We are all slaves... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 578 sidor
...when any difficulty occurs, it may not be owing to the subjectmatter rather than to the treatment. ' Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room ; And...wheel, the weaver at his loom, Sit blithe and happy j bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest peak of Furness-fells, Will murmur by the hour in foxglove... | |
 | Stuart Curran - 1990 - 280 sidor
...first affirms. And yet, it is because of this "air of paradise" — or something very like it — that "Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room; / And...Cells; / And Students with their pensive Citadels." Everywhere in the "Miscellaneous Sonnets" are recorded moments of wonder — distant ships, a distant... | |
 | John Hollander - 1990 - 280 sidor
...trope of confinement within a set of ruled contingencies are immediately at issue in the opening lines: Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And...bees that soar for bloom. High as the highest Peak of Furness-fells, Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells: In truth the prison, unto which we doom Ourselves,... | |
 | Alberta Turner - 1992 - 228 sidor
...la. Tra la la. Tra la la la la la la la la la la la la. \eah yeah yeah. HELEN CHASIN Nuns Fret Not Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And...bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest Peak of Furness-fells, Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells: In truth the prison, unto which we doom Ourselves,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 sidor
...innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. 'Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And...bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest Peak of Furness-fells, Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells: In truth the prison, unto which we doom Ourselves,... | |
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NUNS fret not at their convent's narrow room ; And hermits are contented with their cells ; And students with their pensive citadels ; Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom, Sit blithe and happy ; bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest Peak... 
