...line occurs is ' Ah ! then, if mine had been the painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream.' EAB begs to know if anyone could tell her where to procure the music of a hymn that was sung by the...

...never passed away. Ah, then, if mine had been the painter's hand To express what then I saw, and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream, — • I would have planted thee, thou hoary pile, Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a...

...to the commonplaces of his thinking, and apparels his loftier conceptions in celestial light, — " The gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream." The first and grandest exercise, therefore, of his imagination is the creation of this harmonizing...

...being. It were difficult to name any thing else of human workmanship so thoroughly transfigured with "the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream." The celestial and the earthly are here so commingled, — commingled, but not confounded, — that...

...so powerfully the familiar appearances and common facts of earth, adding, as he himself says, — " The gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream," one is tempted to ask, Is this true, is the light real, or only fantastic? Now in this, I conceive,...

...once an instance and an illustration, he does indeed, to all thoughts and to all objects— ' Acid the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream.' " " The great poet of our times, Wordsworth — one of the few who are to live — . has gone to common...

...enchanting regions — regions which, to all that is lovely in the forms and colors of earth, "Add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream." A motion of the hand brings all Arcadia to sight. The war >f Troy can, at our bidding, rage in the...

...thoroughly manly feeling. He always insists, it has been well said, that Nature gives gladness to tin; glad and comfort to the sorrowful. It is not only...feel that wonderful connection between nature and the eoul of man, which is indeed mysterious, but which those who have felt it cannot deny ; and those who...

...that he iAeds upon them " the gleam — The light that never was on sea or land ; The consecration aud the poet's dream ; " and that he makes us feel that...felt it cannot deny ; and those who believe that the sзшe Almighty God created both, will not be inclined to doubt. If i were to read to you all the passages,...

...except as seen through her eyes, and colored by her imagination and feeling. It is this that adds — " The gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream."] December 30. A perfectly lovely day. Yesterday it was rather chilly and cloudy, but it is quite clear...