 | 1811 - 566 pages
...chastised swellings of the heart that breathe in these lines of Cowper : 'Nor rural sights alone, hut rural sounds Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The...Nature. Mighty winds That sweep the skirt of some far spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of ocean on his winding shore,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - 228 pages
...survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years. Praise justly due to those that I describe. • Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore B The tone of languid nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...Rural sounds, as well as rural sights delightful. NOR rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exmlarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature....winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood, Ot ancient growth, make music, not unlike T'K- dash of ocean on his winding shore, And lull the spirit... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1814 - 496 pages
...sights alone, bnt rnral sonnds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of langnid Natnre. Blighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth', make mnsic not nnlike The dash ot* Ocean on 1m winding shore, And lnll the spirit while they fill the mind;... | |
 | William Cowper - 1815 - 338 pages
...novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years. Praise justly due to those that I describe. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate...branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast flutt'ring, all at once. Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...the wildly devious morning walk ? THOMSON. SECTION II. SOUNDS, AS WELL AS RVRAL SIGHTS, DRLIGHTiW,, NOR rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate...nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some fair spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music, not unlike The dash of ocean on bis winding shore,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 328 pages
...morning walk ? THOMSON. SECTION II. Rural Sounds, as well as rural Sights, delightful. NOR rural sights, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirit, and restore...nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music, not unlike The dash of ocean on his winding shore,... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...dance, but you Can make the motion and the forest too. . • WALLEB. THE PLEASURES OF THE COUNTRY. The tone of languid nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of' Ocean on his winding shore,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1817 - 248 pages
...novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years. Praise justly due to those that I describe. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate...winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood 13 Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore, And lull the spirit... | |
 | William Cowper - 1817 - 240 pages
...and the scrutiny of years. Praise justly due to those that I descrihe. Nor rural sights alone, hut rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The...Nature. — Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of ocean on his winding shore,... | |
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore... 
