 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1814 - 476 pages
...the inferior Faculty that moulds, With her minute and speculative pains, Opinion, ever changing ! — I have seen A curious Child, who dwelt upon a tract...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... | |
 | 1815 - 670 pages
...example of his success in subduing a most untractable thought, and enriching himself with its spoils. * I have seen A curious Child, who dwelt upon a tract...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1815 - 558 pages
...I have seen,' the poet says, and the illustration is an happy one : N 1 have seen A curious child, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd...To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intensely, and his countenance soon Brighten'd with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard —... | |
 | England - 1843 - 844 pages
...have written some worse myself. Landor. — So has Wordsworth. Attend to the echo in the Excursion. " I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...smooth-lipp'd shell, To which, in silence hush'd, his very BOU! Listen'd intensely, and his countenance soon Brighten'd urith joy ; for, murmuring from within,... | |
 | 1847 - 648 pages
...deserve careful examination. A single shell may afford much pleasure. A celebrated poet says, — " I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intensely ; and his countenance soon Brighten'd with joy, for murmurings from within Were heard, —... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1825 - 222 pages
...many hundred miles. — See Hodgson's Letters from North America, vol. ip 242. Note 2, page 5, line 9. And for their birth-place moan, as moans the ocean-shell....very soul Listen'd intently, and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard — sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1827 - 256 pages
...many hundred miles. — See Hodgson's Letters from North America, vol. ip 242. Note 2, page 5, line 9. And for their birth-place moan, as moans the ocean-shell....very soul Listen'd intently, and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard — sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1827 - 528 pages
...many hundred miles. — See Hodgson's Letters from North America, vol. ip 242. Note 2, page 5, line 9. And for their birth-place moan, as moans the ocean-shell....very soul Listen'd intently, and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard — sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 456 pages
...the inferior Faculty that moulds, With her minute and speculative pains, Opinion, ever changing ! — I have seen A curious Child, who dwelt upon a tract...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... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1828 - 234 pages
...from North America, vol. ip 242. Note 2. And. for their biith-ptace moan, as moans the ocean shell. Such a shell as Wordsworth has beautifully described...convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell , To which, in silence kush'd, his very soul ListenM intently, and his countenance soon Brighten'd with joy ; lor murmuring... | |
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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... 
