...well as rural sights, delightful. NOR rural sights alone', but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirif, and restore The tone of languid nature*. Mighty winds',...fill the mind*; Unnumber'd branches waving in the blasf , And all their leaves fast flutfrmg all at once*. X Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of...

...novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years. Praise justly due to those that I describe. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate...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,...

...skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient o-rowth, make musick, not unlike The dash ot ocean on ins winding shore, And lull the spirit while they fill...branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast flutt'ring all at once. t. Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods ; or on the softer...

...INFLUENCE OF NATURAL SCENERY. NIi:Í rural sights alone, hul rиrа! sounds, V \hilarate the spirit, am) restore The tone of languid Nature. Mighty winds. That sweep the skirt of somc far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of Ocian on its winding shore....

...Praise justly due to those that I describe. 180 Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhiljratc 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...

...survives • Long knowledge and the Scrutiny of years : Prake justly due to those that I describe. • & & wirids, , That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike...

...— the rook incessantly busy ; a thousand other sounds, making good the poet's assertion : — " Not rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature." The cowslips are almost over — but the little blue veronica, called in country phrase, bird's cowslip,...

...who has not only adapted every element to our wants, but also made it minister to our enjoyment. ' Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate...shore. And lull the spirit while they fill the mind ; Unnumbcr'tl branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast fluttering, all at once. Nor...

...yet the more solemn and chastised swellings of the heart that breathe iu UK* lines of Cowper: — " Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate...shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind ; Unnumbcr'd branches waving on the blast, And all their leaves fast flutt'ring, all at once. Nor less...

...its author." * It is interesting to compare with this the poetical expression of the same thought. " Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate...the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature * Letter to Mr. Newton. Nature inanimate employs sweet sounds, But animated nature sweeter still, To...