| 1850 - 806 páginas
...shepherd's quiet and gentle spirit, and preferred to the bustle and the laurels of the battlefield — ' The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.' Surely, the hero and his poet both must be reckoned by the wise to have ' chosen the better part.'... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 606 páginas
...are born, and to know himself better than he could have done in his hereditary sphere." — p. 250. 4 Love had he found in huts, where poor men lie, , ,...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. 1 In him the savage virtue of the Race — Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead ; Nor did... | |
| Thomas N. Brown - 1859 - 360 páginas
...certain it is, that with the most obdurate inflexibility did he decline their every solicitation. " Love had he found in huts where poor men lie, His...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills ;" and with that love and these teachers he seemed unambitious to extend the circle of his acquaintanceship,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 326 páginas
...was framed, Who, long compelled in humble walks to go Was softened into feeling-, soothed, and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor men lie : His...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills." The words themselves in the foregoing extracts, are, no doubt, sufficiently common for the greater... | |
| 1823 - 782 páginas
...time-piece has struck one, we are off to Arthur's Seat. TO THE MEMOI1Y OP ROBERT BLOOMFIELD. Lore tad he found in huts where poor men lie* His daily teachers...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. WORD3WOBIH> SWEET, siini.Ir Poet, thou art gone ! And shall no parting tear be shed By those to whom... | |
| 1817 - 708 páginas
...so far from it. The noise and the bustle of the world were immediately forgotten on contemplating " The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills." A light, as it were, broke around him, and exhibited a strange and momentary gleam of joy and of misery... | |
| 1817 - 482 páginas
...so far from it. The noise and the bustle of the world were immediately forgotten on contemplating ' The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.' Alight, as it were, broke around him, and exhibited a strange and momentary gleam of joy and of misery... | |
| 1817 - 694 páginas
...so far from it The noise and the bustle of the world were immediately forgotten on contemplating " The silence that is in the starry sky. The sleep that is among the lonely lulls." A light, as it were, broke around him, and exhibited a strange and momentary gleam of joy and... | |
| 1824 - 494 páginas
...BLOOMFIELD. Love had hr found in buta where poor men lie, H,s daily teachers had been woods and r,lls, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hllK IVordmarth. SWEET, simple Poet, thou art gone ! 'Mid poverty it chcer'd thy lot, And shall no... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1819 - 378 páginas
...same reasons which have rendered the poet that celebrates him such a poet as he is. " Love had he seen in huts where poor men lie. His daily teachers had...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills." Before a man can understand and relish his poems, his mind must, in some measure, pass through the... | |
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