 | Epes Sargent - 1857
...ntither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it, and say it is safe. Examples of Middle Pitch. 1. I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell ; To which, in silence touched, his very soul Listened intently ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 358 sidor
...self-dispraise ; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast. Book iv. I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.... | |
 | John Baillie - 1856 - 377 sidor
..."the convolutions of a smoothlipped shell." " In silence hushed, his very soul Listened intently ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for...Monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea." Dear Adelaide is now approaching her heavenly home. And as she nears it, her utterances sound in the... | |
 | Robert Crookall - 1969 - 175 sidor
...smiling upon me * See pp. 54, 104. t Compare Wordsworth, who said : "I have seen A curious child . . . applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell, To which, in silence hushed, liix very Soul Listened intensely; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for from within were... | |
 | Mary Caroline Richards - 1989 - 159 sidor
...Excursion" William Wordsworth has written a passage which suggests the magnitude of our listening power : I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.... | |
 | David P. Haney - 2010
..."authentic tidings of invisible things" as the child, committing an empirical "error" listens to a shell: I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy, for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.... | |
 | Alison Hickey - 1997 - 237 sidor
...through the temporality of writing) to mediate between self and other, as in this example from book 4: I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.... | |
 | Felicia Hemans - 2002 - 498 sidor
...birth-place moan, as moans the ocean-shell. [1.36] Such a shell as Wordsworth has beautifully described. "I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intently, and his countenance... | |
 | A. Mātavaiyā - 2005 - 321 sidor
...vasantha morning. BOOK III "A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to her ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To which, in silence hushed, her very soul Listened intensely; and her countenance soon Brightened with joy; for from within were... | |
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I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for from... 
