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... Practical English composition - Página 160por Richard Hiley - 1852Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1835 - 932 páginas
...that breathe in these lines of Cowper : — " Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate tlic spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. Mighty winds. That sweep the skirl of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of ocean on his... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1836 - 264 páginas
...Rural Sounds, as veil as Rural Sights, delightful. NOR rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exilarate the spirit, and restore • The tone of languid nature....branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast flutt'ring all at once. 2 Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods ; or on the softer... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 416 páginas
...survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years. Praise justly due to those that I describe. 180 Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate...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, 12 Striking... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 206 páginas
...novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years. Praise justly due to those that I descrihe. 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,... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 402 páginas
...due to those that I describe. 180 Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirit u, and restore The tone of languid Nature. Mighty winds...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, 11 Striking... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1837 - 276 páginas
...wildly devious morning walk ?—THOMSON. SECTION II. Rural sounds, as well as rural sights, delightful. NOR rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate...restore The tone of languid nature. Mighty winds, Of ancient growth, make music, not unlike That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood The dash... | |
| William Cowper - 1837 - 534 páginas
...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 the spirit, and restore The toae of languid Nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth,... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1840 - 270 páginas
...wildly devious morning walk ? — THOMSON. SECTION II. Rural sounds, as well as rural sights, delightfu1 NOR rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate...music, not unlike The dash of ocean on his winding thore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind, Unnnmber'd branches waving in the blast, And all... | |
| William Cowper - 1841 - 240 páginas
...survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years. Praise justly due to those that I describe. 180 Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate...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... | |
| 1841 - 644 páginas
...shady forests con be found for retreat, within в few hour's travel, where, as the poet sings, " Not rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the...tone of languid Nature. Mighty winds That sweep the rkirt of юте far spreading wood Of ancient prowth, make music not unlike The dash of Ocean on hie... | |
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