| 1850 - 806 pages
...shepherd's quiet and gentle spirit, and preferred to the bustle and the laurels of the battlefield — ' The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.' Surely, the hero and his poet both must be reckoned by the wise to have ' chosen the better part.'... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pages
...and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie, His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. In him the savage Virtue of the Race, Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead : Nor did he change... | |
| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie, His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. In him the savage Virtue of the Race, Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead: Nor did he change;... | |
| Thomas N. Brown - 1859 - 360 pages
...solicitation. " Love had he found in huts where poor men lie, His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills ;" and with that love and these teachers he seemed unambitious to extend the circle of his acquaintanceship,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie, His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. In him the savage Virtue of the Race, Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead : Nor did he change... | |
| William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie, His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. In him the savage Virtue of the Race, Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead : Nor did he change... | |
| 1817 - 708 pages
...so far from it. The noise and the bustle of the world were immediately forgotten on contemplating " The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills." A light, as it were, broke around him, and exhibited a strange and momentary gleam of joy and of misery... | |
| England - 1823 - 782 pages
...BLOOMFIELD. Lore tad he found in huts where poor men lie* His daily teachers had been woods and rills. The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. WORD3WOBIH> SWEET, siini.Ir Poet, thou art gone ! And shall no parting tear be shed By those to whom... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 316 pages
...tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor men lie : His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills." The words themselves in the foregoing extracts, are, no doubt, sufficiently common for the greater... | |
| 1817 - 482 pages
...so far from it. The noise and the bustle of the world were immediately forgotten on contemplating ' The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.' Alight, as it were, broke around him, and exhibited a strange and momentary gleam of joy and of misery... | |
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