 | 1875 - 416 páginas
...of some great admiral were but a wand,"' compared to it. How applicable seemed Wordsworth's words, " This solitary tree ! A living thing, produced too slowly ever to decay ; Of form aud aspect too magnificent To be destroyed." While examining the noble specimen, I was surprised to... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1876 - 460 páginas
...march'd To Scotland's heaths ; or those that crossed the sea, And drew their sounding bows at Agincourt, Perhaps at earlier Cressy or Poictiers. Of vast circumference...to decay ; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.' GRASSMOOR, WHITESIDE, SAND HILL, GRISEDALE PIKE, EEL CRAG, AND WHITELESS PIKE. (14 miles... | |
 | Lucy Larcom - 1876 - 278 páginas
...; or those that crossed the sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers. Of vast circumference and gloom profound...to decay ; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed. But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 288 páginas
...heaths; or those that crossed the sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers. Of vast circumference and gloom profound...to decay ; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed. But worthier still of note Are those fraternal four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn... | |
 | Language - 1877 - 316 páginas
...; or those that crossed the sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers. Of vast circumference and gloom profound...to decay ; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed. But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn... | |
 | Frederick Edward Hulme - 1877 - 270 páginas
...of fixedness in the midst of evanescence, peace outlasting turmoil — " A living thing Produced wo slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed." Wordsworth. The holly is perhaps the most characteristic of all the plants associated with... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1879 - 390 páginas
...; or those that crossed the sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers. Of vast circumference and gloom profound...to decay ; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed. But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1879 - 362 páginas
...; or those that crossed the sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers. Of vast circumference and gloom profound...to decay ; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed. But worthier stuTof note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 288 páginas
...that crossed the sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poietiers. Of vast circumference and gloom profound This solitary...to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed. But worthier still of note Are those fraternal four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn... | |
 | Henry Irwin Jenkinson - 1879 - 152 páginas
...the village of Lorton, where is situated the celebrated Yew Tree commemorated by Wordsworth : — " Of vast circumference and gloom profound This solitary...to decay ; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed." Those who now visit this tree will be inclined to think that Wordsworth was not infallible,... | |
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To Scotland's heaths ; or those that crossed the sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers. Of vast circumference and gloom profound This solitary Tree ! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay ; Of... 
