 Or image unprofaned; and I would stand, If the night blackened with a coming storm, Beneath some rock, listening to notes that are The ghostly language of the ancient earth, Or make their dim abode in distant winds.  The Border magazine - Page 3021863Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1850 - 412 pages
...To breathe an elevated mood, by form Or image unprofaned ; and I would stand, If the night blackened with a coming storm, Beneath some rock, listening...drink the visionary power; And deem not profitless those fleeting moods Of shadowy exultation : not for this, That they are kindred to our purer mind... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...To breathe an elevated mood, by form Or image unprofaned ; and I would stand, If the night blackened with a coming storm, Beneath some rock, listening...drink the visionary power; And deem not profitless those fleeting moods Of shadowy exultation : not for this, That they are kindred to our purer mind... | |
 | English literature - 1853 - 604 pages
...To breathe an elevated mood, by form Or image unprofaned, and he would stand, If the night blackened with a coming storm, Beneath some rock, listening...earth, Or make their dim abode in distant winds." With a proud, we should rather say a praiseworthy, spirit of independence, he became a teacher of others... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1854 - 432 pages
...breathe .an elevated mood, by form Or image unprofaned ; and I would stand, If the night blackened with a coming storm, Beneath some rock, listening...drink the visionary power ; And deem not profitless those fleeting moods Of shadowy exultation : not for this, That they are kindred to our purer mind... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 776 pages
...would stand, If the night blackened with a coming storm, Beneath some rock, listening to notes that in The ghostly language of the ancient earth, Or make...drink the visionary power; And deem not profitless those fleeting mood* Of shadowy exultation: not for this, That they are kindred to our purer mind And... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Jews - 1866 - 704 pages
...institution adopted from the customs of the whole primeval world. In its outward forms "we seem to hear — Notes that are The ghostly language of the ancient earth, Or make their dim abode in distant winds. Of some few the original spirit may be faintly discerned. The extreme and punctilious cleanliness,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1864 - 744 pages
...frequent. At nightfall, whun a storm was coming on, be would stand in shelter of a rock, and hear " Notes that are The ghostly language of the ancient earth, Or make their dim abode in distant sounds." At such timee he was aware of a coming in upon him of the " visionary power." On summer mornings... | |
 | English literature - 1864 - 546 pages
...frequent. At nightfall, when a storm was coming on, he would stand in shelter of a rock, and hear " Notes that are The ghostly language of the ancient earth, Or make their dim abode in distant sounds." At such times he was aware of a coming in upon him of the " visionary power." On summer mornings... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Jews - 1865 - 644 pages
...institution adopted from the customs of the whole primeval world. In its outward forms we seem to hear Notes that are The ghostly language of the ancient earth, Or make their dim abode in distant winds. Of some few the original spirit may be faintly discerned. 1 8Dffoi (comp. John x. 10 ; Acts x. fessor... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870 - 382 pages
...To breathe an elevated mood, by form Or image unprofaned ; and I would stand, If the night blackened with a coming storm, Beneath some rock, listening...drink the visionary power ; And deem not profitless those fleeting moods Of shadowy exultation : not for this, VOL. v. ' L That they are kindred to our... | |
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