 I scarcely remember counting upon any Happiness. I look not for it if it be not in the present hour. Nothing startles me beyond the Moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a Sparrow come before my Window, I take part in its existence...  The Edinburgh Review - Page 4261849Full view - About this book
 | Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.) - 1848 - 328 pages
...You have of necessity, from your disposition, been thus led away. I scarcely remember counting upon any happiness. I look not for it if it be not in the...my window, I take part in its existence, and pick about the gravel. The first thing that strikes me on hearing a misfortune having befallen another is... | |
 | John Keats - Poets, English - 1848 - 420 pages
...You have of necessity, from your disposition, been thus led away. I scarcely remember counting upon any happiness. I look not for it if it be not in the...my window, I take part in its existence, and pick about the gravel. The first thing that strikes me on hearing a misfortune having befallen another is... | |
 | Literature - 1848 - 578 pages
...You have of necessity, from your disposition, been thus led away. I scarcely remember counting upon any happiness. I look not for it if it be not in the...my window, I take part in its existence, and pick about the gravel. The first thing that strikes me on hearing a misfortune having befallen another is... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1850 - 604 pages
...wielded by it wholly. To the sluggish temperaments of ordinary men excitement is pleasure. The fervor of Keats preyed upon him with a pain from which Shelley...will always set me to rights ; or if a sparrow were 86 TENNYSON, AND THE SCHOOLS OF POETRY. 87 before my window, I take part in its existence, and pick... | |
 | Mumbai (India) - 1861 - 532 pages
...crosses, that he went stooping from his " teens" to his tomb — no great interval. In 1817, he says— " I scarcely remember counting on any happiness. I look...present hour. Nothing startles me beyond the moment. The first thing that strikes me on hearing a misfortune having befallen another is this — ' Well, it... | |
 | Charles Kent - Biography - 1864 - 492 pages
...! The heart that worshipped Nature so devoutly that he was fain to cry out once, " The setting suu will always set me to rights, or if a sparrow were...before my window, I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel," lay at rest there under the turf — dyed by the Italian sunset — the haunt of... | |
 | John Keats, Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - Poets, English - 1867 - 388 pages
...You have of necessity, from your disposition, been thus led away. I scarcely remember counting upon any happiness. I look not for it if it be not in the...sun will always set me to rights, or if a sparrow come before my window, I take part in its existence, and pick about the gravel. The first thing that... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 648 pages
...and happiness, too, was not a stranger to it. ' Nothing startles me beyond the moment,' he says ; ' the setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a sparrow come before my window I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel.' But he had terrible... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 650 pages
...and happiness, too, was not a stranger to it. ' Nothing startles me beyond the moment,' he says ; ' the setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a sparrow come before my window I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel.' But he had terrible... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 654 pages
...and happiness, too, was not a stranger to it. ' Nothing startles me beyond the moment,' he says ; ' the setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a sparrow come before my window I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel.' But he had terrible... | |
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