Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore... The Task: A Poem. In Six Books - Seite 19von William Cowper - 1810 - 193 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Cowper - 1800 - 438 Seiten
...years. .Praise justly due to those that I describe. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature....shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind; Unnumber'd branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast flutt'ring, all at once. Nor less... | |
| William Cowper - 1802 - 350 Seiten
...years. Praise justly due to those that I describe. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature....shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind ; Unnumber'd branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast flutt'ring, all at once. Nor less... | |
| 1802 - 302 Seiten
...Praise justly due to those that I describe. 180 Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature....far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike 185 The dash of ocean on his winding shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind ; Unnumber'd... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 234 Seiten
...years. Praise justly due to those that I describe. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature....shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind ; Unnumbered branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast fluttering, all at once. Nor less... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 300 Seiten
...tone of lapguid Nature. Mighty wind?, •That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of anciettf growth, make music not unlike The dash of ocean on his winding shore, And lull the spirit while they fit! the mind; Unnumbered branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast fluttering, all ar... | |
| William Cowper - 1808 - 338 Seiten
...those that I descrihe. tmiifl€ . ,. tsY Nor rural sights alone, hut rural sounds, ""A Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature....far-spreading wood' ' Of ancient growth, make music not unlike i* ' The dash of Ocean on his winding shore, ' ilriiAI And lull the spirit while they fill the mind... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 526 Seiten
...years. Praise justly due to those that I describe. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds. Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature....shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind; Unnumber'd branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast fluti riujr, all at once. Ttf«-... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 Seiten
....RURAL SOUNDS, AS WELL AS RURAL SIGHTS, DELIGHTFUL NOR rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. Mighty winds. That sweep the skirt of some far spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music, ntH unlike The dash of ocean on his winding shore,... | |
| William Cowper - 1811 - 228 Seiten
...that I describe. • Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore B The tone of languid nature. Mighty winds, That sweep...shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind ; Unnumber'd branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast flutt'ring, all at once. Nor less... | |
| 1811 - 566 Seiten
...heart that breathe in these lines of Cowper : 'Nor rural sights alone, hut rural sounds Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature. Mighty winds That sweep the skirt of some far spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of ocean on his winding shore,... | |
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