 | Mrs. Hemans - 1827 - 360 pages
...birth-place moan, as moans the ocean-shell. Such a shell as Wordsworth has beautifully described. " I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell ; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intently, and his countenance... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1828 - 234 pages
...biith-ptace moan, as moans the ocean shell. Such a shell as Wordsworth has beautifully described " I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell , To which, in silence kush'd, his very soul ListenM intently, and his countenance... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, James Handasyd Perkins - Unitarianism - 1836 - 740 pages
...the proof. In this last point, as in those which precede, Genius stands before us a willing witness. I have seen "A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intently; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for murmurings from within Were heard, —... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - English poetry - 1836 - 46 pages
...mankind. Batter it, bruize it, blacken it at will, It hath its weight and precious substance still. Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1836 - 398 pages
...changing ! I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his car The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell ; To which,...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1837 - 606 pages
...august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.' The passage from ' The Excursion ' is this — ' I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon _ Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard — sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his... | |
 | English literature - 1837 - 602 pages
...seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions'of a smooth-lipped shell ; To -which, in silence hushed,...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard — sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 750 pages
...By the inferior faculty that moulds, With her minute and speculative pains, Opinion, ever changing ! I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell ; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intensely; and his countenance... | |
 | 1839 - 538 pages
...steril promontory," and that the universe is hollow without the presence of faith and imagination : " I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1839 - 362 pages
...birthplace moan, as moans the ocean-shell. Such a shell as Wordsworth has beautifully described. " I have seen A curious child who dwelt upon a tract...ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Usten'd intently, and his countenance... | |
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I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for from... 
