 | 1856 - 722 sider
...follow-out their pursuits upon a more extensive scale, and annually visit the Highlands of Scotland, " To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock, that never needi a fold ; Alone o'er iteeps and foaming falls to lean : This is not solitude ; 'tis bat to hold... | |
 | 1813 - 996 sider
...give the truly beautiful portrait of " Solitude," which follows : " To sit on rocks, to muse o'er Bood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene....things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot-path ne'er, or rarely been; To climb the trackless mouulaiu all unseen, With the wild flock, that... | |
 | 1832 - 852 sider
...solitude as absence from mankind and the scenes which link man with society, this would be solitude ; but This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and see her stores unroll'd. " Soon after eight o'clock in the evening, I scrambled up into the roof of... | |
 | 1811 - 546 sider
...meditations. There is great power, we think, and great bitterness of soul, in the following stanzas. ' To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly...'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and see her stores unroll V . But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel,... | |
 | 1812 - 560 sider
...A flashing pamj! of which the weary breast Would snll, albeit in vain, the heavy heart divest. XXV. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly...'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and see her stores unroliV. XXVI. But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to... | |
 | 1811 - 600 sider
...meditations. There is great power, we think, and great bitterness of soul, in the fallowing stan/as. ' To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly...steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude 4 'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and see her stores unroll'd. But midst the crowd,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1812 - 506 sider
...phase; But Mauritania's giant shadows frown, From mountain cliff to coast descending sombre down. XXV. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly...'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and see her stores unrolled. XXVI. But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1812 - 510 sider
...phase ; But Mauritania's giant shadows frown, From mountain cliff to coast descending sombre down. XXV. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly...'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and see her stores unrolled. XXVI. But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to... | |
 | 1812 - 528 sider
...thought is decked in the graces of unborrowed poetry, and appears in all the charms of originality. " To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly...'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and see her stores unroll'd. " But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel,... | |
 | 1812 - 708 sider
...grace, they frequently possess. Let us take, for example, the two following stanzas on solitude. ' To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly...flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foamiug falls to lean ;..,.. This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold „. Converse with nature's charms,... | |
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To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never... 
