...no lover of poetry, he had not only condescended to read, but to commit to memory. So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So...seem among the young and gay More grave than they ; That, in my age, as cheerful I might be, As the green winter of the holly tree. " If Evelyn could...

...when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the holly-tree ? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So...seem among the young and gay More grave than they ; That in my age as cheerful I might be As the green winter of the holly-tree." Wordsworth also praises...

...when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the holly tree ? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would...seem among the young and gay More grave than they, That in my age as cheerful I might be As the green winter of the holly tree. A RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW....

...when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the holly tree ? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would...seem among the young and gay More grave than they, That in my age as cheerful I might be, As the green winter of the holly tree. SOUTHET. Gilpin speaks...

...rather (for Southey has been opposed to himself), to his Poem on the Holly Tree. So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So...of a solemn visage that " creamed and mantled like a standing pool," he was the first to pitch a mischievous stone to disturb the duck- weed. " He was...

...rather (for Southey has been opposed to himself), to his Poem on the Holly Tree. So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So...of a solemn visage that " creamed and mantled like a standing pool," he was the first to pitch a mischievous stone to disturb the duck-weed. " He was...

...rather (for Southey has been opposed to himself), to his Poem on the Holly Tree. So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So...There was nothing of Sir Oracle about Lamb. On the con!rary, at sight of a solemn visage that " creamed and mantled like a standing pool," he was the...

...rather (for Southey has been opposed to himself ), to his Poem on the Holly Tree. So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So would I seem among the young and gay More gravt than they. There was nothing of Sir Oracle about Lamb. On the contrary, at sight of a solemn...

...tended to make him more so. The Laureate, in his poem on the Hollytree, has said : " So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So...seem among the young and gay, More grave than they." His sedateness did not, I think, spring from pride ; and they who knew him better than I did, hold...

...rather (for Southey has been opposed to himself), to his Poem on the Holly Tree. So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So...of a solemn visage that " creamed and mantled like a standing pool," he was the first to pitch a mischievous stone to disturb the duck- weed. " He was...