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" For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with... "
Cyclopędia of English literature - Page 327
by Robert Chambers - 1844
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Lyrical ballads, with other poems [including some by S.T. Coleridge]. From ...

William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...mourn nor murmur: Other gifts Have followed, for such loss, I would believe, i: Abundant recompence. For I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the...chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused,...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 179

1894 - 576 pages
...to be drawn. The whole poem on Tintern Abbey may be said to form a complete exposition of it : — ' For I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the...grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And 1 have felt A presence which disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts ; a sense sublime Of something...
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British melodies, extracts from the modern poets [signed J.H.R.].

British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...than one Who sought the thing he loved; For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, Aud their glad animal movements all gone by,) To me was...oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor gratiug, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with...
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The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, Volume 2

William Wordsworth - 1820 - 372 pages
...mourn nor murmur ; other gifts Have followed, for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompence. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts ; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused,...
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The Friend, Volume 1

Robert Smith - 1829 - 432 pages
...cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, T/ie mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours...recompense. For I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing often times The still, sad music of humanity, Nor...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 52

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 628 pages
...was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, , The mountain, and the dtep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were...humanity, Nor harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. . Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains ;...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 52

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 596 pages
...tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to mu An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need...humanity, Nor harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. . . Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 52

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 594 pages
...and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and alove, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied,...humanity, Nor harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. . . . . Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 52

1834 - 864 pages
...no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye. That tune is past, And all its aching joys are now no more,...humanity, Nor harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. . . Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains...
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The Biblical Repository and Quarterly Observer, Volume 7

1836 - 532 pages
...head of Poems of the Imagination, is inexpressibly affecting. We can copy but a short paragraph. — I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour...chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused,...
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