Hidden fields
Books Books
" Then, sometimes, in that silence, while he hung Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks,... "
Lyrical Ballads,: With Other Poems. In Two Volumes - Page 15
by William Wordsworth - 1800
Full view - About this book

The Laureates of England, from Ben Jonson to Alfred Tennyson

Kenyon West - Literary Criticism - 1895 - 614 pages
...concourse wild Of mirth and jocund din ! And when it chanced That pauses of deep silence mocked his skill, Then sometimes, in that silence, while he hung Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise ffas carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain torrents ; or the visible scene Would...
Full view - About this book

The Laureates of England: Ben Jonson to Alfred Tennyson

Kenyon West - Poets laureate - 1895 - 588 pages
...redoubled—concourse wild Of mirth and jocund din ! And when it chanced That pauses of deep silence mocked his skill, Then sometimes, in that silence, while he hung Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried jar into his heart the voice Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn...
Full view - About this book

The Unremarkable Wordsworth

Geoffrey H. Hartman - 1987 - 281 pages
...into the mind that it is lodged as deeply as the dead mother, the "one dear Presence" in hiding: ... in that silence while he hung Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain torrents; or the visible scene Would...
Limited preview - About this book

Scenes of Nature, Signs of Men: Essays on 19th and 20th Century American ...

Tony Tanner - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 292 pages
...ears', 'I heard among the solitary hills / . . . sounds / of undistinguishable motion', 'Then sometime, in that silence, while he hung / Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise / Has carried far into the heart the voice / Of mountain torrents' — these examples from...
Limited preview - About this book

Rivermen: A Romantic Iconography of the River and the Source

Frederic Stewart Colwell - Electronic books - 1989 - 246 pages
...awareness of his patrimony. ... in that silence, while he hung Listening, a gentle shock of mind surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain...unawares into his mind, With all its solemn imagery ... (5.406-11) Derwent, as father, tempers infant waywardness and those troubled impulses belonging...
Limited preview - About this book

Romantic Revisions

Robert Brinkley, Keith Hanley - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 396 pages
...distinctive character of Wordsworth's imagination in the 'blind beggar' passage. Writing of the lines a gentle shock of mild surprize Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain torrents . . . De Quincey says, This very expression, 'far,' by which space and its infinities are attributed...
Limited preview - About this book

Selected Poems

William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...concourse wild Of jocund din - and, when a lengthened pause 380 Of silence came and baffled his best skill, Then sometimes, in that silence while he hung Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain torrents; or the visible scene Would...
Limited preview - About this book

Wordsworth and Feeling: The Poetry of an Adult Child

G. Kim Blank - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 284 pages
...hung Listening, a gentle [sudden] shock of mild surprize Has carried [Would carry] far into his [my] heart the voice Of mountain torrents, or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his [my] mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, receiv'd Into...
Limited preview - About this book

Wordsworth's Pope: A Study in Literary Historiography

Robert J. Griffin - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 208 pages
...in which the natural world no longer reinforces the child's desires, and the owls cease to respond: Then sometimes in that silence, while he hung Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain torrents. (lines 406-409) In Pope's Aiessiah,...
Limited preview - About this book

Reflecting Senses: Perception and Appearance in Literature, Culture, and the ...

Walter Pape, Frederick Burwick - Art - 1995 - 380 pages
...mimetic action does not cease. Rather, the boy becomes witness to a redoubling more vast and profound: Then sometimes in that silence, while he hung Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain-torrents; or the visible scene Would...
Limited preview - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF