 | Meta Lander - Congregational churches - 1854 - 338 pages
...mysterious beauty there is in the following passage : * I hare seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a iract 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... | |
 | Art - 1854 - 870 pages
...comparison : — • '• I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying tu his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell...and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1854 - 588 pages
...Felicity," as the Turks style their capital, and retreated with wounded dignity towards his own territories. I HAVE seen A curious child who dwelt upon a tract...applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped ehell; To which in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen 'd intently, and his countenance soon Brighten'd... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - 1854 - 366 pages
...birthplace moan, as moam the ocean-fltell. 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... | |
 | Meta Lander - Congregational churches - 1854 - 340 pages
...life again. " What an indescribable and almost mysterious beauty there is in the following passage : ' I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of at smooth- lipped shell, To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely; and his countenance'... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 428 pages
...from which the ear of Faith can hear mysterious murmurings of the Deity. * Excursion, book iv. p. 432. "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 ! wherehy, To his helief, the monitor expressed... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 404 pages
...from which the ear of Faith can hear mysterious murmurings of the Deity. * Excursion, book iv. p. 432. "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... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 424 pages
...from which the ear of Faith can hear mysterious murmurings of the Deity. * Excursion, book iv. p. 432. "I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...intensely; — and his countenance soon Brightened with joy j for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1857 - 320 pages
...ntither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it, and say it is safe. Examples of Middle Pitch. 1. I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell ; To which, in silence touched, his very soul Listened intently ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...self-dispraise ; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast. Book iv. I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...with joy ; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea. One in whom persuasion and belief... | |
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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... 
