 | 1889 - 614 pages
...working upon the passive impression blended thought and matter, produced the new creation, and added ' the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream.' But this creative work of the imagination is only possible j when the relations of Nature with man... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...gentle Things. 141 Ah! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ! Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea that... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pages
...all gentle Things. Ah ! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ! Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea that... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...Things. VOL. II. z Ah ! THEM, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ! Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea that... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...Things. VOL. II. Z 337 Ah ! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ' Amid a world how different from this } Beside a sea that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 pages
...being. It were difficult to name any thing else of human workmanship so thoroughly transfigured with "the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream." The celestial and the earthly are here so commingled, — commingled, but not confounded, — that... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 316 pages
...writers to Shakespear and Milton ; and yet in a kind perfectly un borrowed and his own. To employ his own words, which are at once an instance and an illustration,...or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream." 172 I shall select a few examples as most obviously manifesting this faculty ; but if I should ever... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1832 - 378 pages
...all gentle Tilings. Ah ! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ! Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea that... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literary Criticism - 1834 - 368 pages
...writers to Shakspeare and Milton : and yet in a kind perfectly unborrowed and his own. To employ his own words, which are at once an instance and an illustration,...objects — * add the gleam, The light that never was on son or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream." I shall select a few examples as most obviously... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Art - 1834 - 632 pages
...cloud or vapours ; — but it is something more than these, something beyond, and over all — . . The gleam, The light that never was on sea or land The consecration, and the poet's dream ! Genoa, 30. We arrived here late, and I should not write now, weary, weak, sick, and down-spirited... | |
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Ah ! then if mine had been the painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream... 
