 | Natural history - 1830 - 596 pages
...the sounding of his whelk, of storms at sea, and of the fluxes of the tide ! For, with Wordsworth, 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... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 380 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 Listen'd intently, and his countenance... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 380 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 Listen'd intently, and his countenance... | |
 | George Washington Bethune - Art - 1840 - 64 pages
...German ever read Wordsworth's Excursion, yet, in that most natural poem, we find the same thought. " 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 hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1841 - 400 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...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1855 - 584 pages
...the most intolerant of that school of critics, who vainly attempted to write and sneer him down. " I have seen A curious child who dwelt upon a tract...ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth- lipped shell, To which, in silence hushed, his very sold Listened intensely; and his countenance... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1842 - 372 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 Listened intently, and his countenance... | |
 | 1843 - 602 pages
...Landor. I have written some worse myself. L. So has Wordsworth. Attend to the echo in the Excursion : " 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 Lbttn'd intensely, and his countenance... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 612 pages
...Landor. I have written some worse myself. L. So has Wordsworth. Attend to the echo in the Excursion : " 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... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1845 - 360 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 Listen'd intently, and his countenance... | |
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