 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...  Scenes and Impressions in Egypt and in Italy - Page 435by Moyle Sherer - 1825 - 435 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...footsteps roam, That land thy country, and that spot thy home ! LESSON XCV. Nature. — WORDSWORTH. 1. I HAVE learned To look on Nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. 2.... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 354 pages
...For I have learn'd To look on nature, not as In the hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftenllmei The still sad music of humanity, Not harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A spirit which disturbs me whh the joy Of elevated thoughts... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - Literature - 1853 - 412 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...hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - American literature - 1853 - 434 pages
...to him in solitude," . and his mind has held mysterious communion with their inward spirit : — " For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1853 - 300 pages
...mourn nor murmur; other gifts Have followed ; for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompence. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And... | |
 | American literature - 1853 - 442 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...hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Swedenborgians - 1854 - 444 pages
...such lessons, and to her own legitimate children affords no such consolations. Again, he says— " 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 ; Nor harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.... | |
 | 1896 - 858 pages
..." All that is, at all, Lasts ever, past recall, Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure." 4. "I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity." 5. Which of our well-known hymns do you think best suited to the use... | |
 | B. J. Wallace, Albert Barnes - Presbyterian Church - 1855 - 722 pages
...process of imaginative development, to intimate, mysterious communion with the inward spirit of nature : 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, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 590 pages
...the following sublime description of a mind dependent on nature for its inspiration and its power, " For I have learned To look on nature, not ta in the...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity ; Nor harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and snbduc.... | |
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