...his skilJ, Then, sometimes, in that silence, while he hung Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprize Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain...imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, receiv'd Into the bosom of the steady lake. Fair are the woods, and beauteous is the spot, The vale...

...jocund din ! And, when it chanced That pauses of deep silence mocked his skill, Then, sometimes, in that silence, while he hung Listening, a gentle shock of...heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake. This Boy was taken from his Mates, and died In childhood, ere he was ten years old. Fair are the woods,...

...jocund din ! And, when it chanced That pauses of deep silence mocked his skill, Then, sometimes, in that silence, while he hung Listening, a gentle shock of...heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake. This Boy was taken from his Mates, and died In childhood, ere he was full twelve years old. Fair are...

...din ! And, when it chanced 297 That pauses of deep silence mocked his skill, Then, sometimes, in that silence, while he hung Listening, a gentle shock of...heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake. This Boy was taken from his Mates, and died In childhood, ere he was full twelve years old. Fair are...

...immortality :— " When it chanced That pauses of deep silence mock'd his skill, Then, sometimes, in that silence, while he hung Listening, a gentle shock of...unawares into hiS mind With all its solemn imagery," &e. The boy dies, and this historian tells us: — "I believe that often-times, A long half-hour together,...

...passage for " a wild scene" as it stood in the former edition, encourages me to hazard a remark, 109 Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn...heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake." The second shall be that noble imitation of which I certainly should not have made in the works of a poet...

...his skill, Then sometimes in that silence, ivhile he hung Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprize Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain torrents ; or the visible scene* * Mr. Wordsworth's having judiciously adopted " concourse wild" in this passage for " a wild scene"...

...jocund din ! And, when it chanced That pauses of deep silence mocked his skill, Then, sometimes, in that silence, while he hung Listening, a gentle shock of...heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake. This Boy was taken from his Mates, and died In childhood, ere he was full twelve years old. Fair are...

...atmosphere, and motions of the lightest breeze, and subject to agitation only from the winds — • The visible scene • Would enter unawares into his...heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake ! It must be noticed, as a favourable characteristic of the lakes of this country, that, though several...

...skill, Then, sometimes, in that silence, while be bung Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Hoi carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter mautaret into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Iff woods, and that uncertain heaven,...