...skill, Then sometimes, in that silence, while he hung Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise ffas carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain torrents...heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake. 1799V. PERSONAL TALK. I AM not one who much or oft delight To season my fireside with personal talk...

...and jocund din ! And when it chanced, That pauses of deep silence mock'd his skill, Then sometimes in that silence, -while he hung Listening, a gentle...into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, 5 Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake." 2 The second shall...

...his calls. . . . And when it chanced That pauses of deep silence mocked his skill, Then, sometimes, in that silence, while he hung Listening, a gentle...heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake." Oh, the blessedness of having been a boy in the country! What gladness in the experience, what riches...

...conscious framework for relationship, nature conveys to him the gift of a larger world. Then sometimes, in that silence while he hung Listening, a gentle...uncertain heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake.3 Startled, the Boy's mind becomes one with the image of the steady lake which it receives. Through...

...into the mind that it is lodged as deeply as the dead mother, the "one dear Presence" in hiding: ... in that silence while he hung Listening, a gentle...scene Would enter unawares into his mind, With all it solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received Into the bosom of the...

...other times: When a lengthened pause Of silence came and baffled his best skill, (380) Then sometimes, in that silence while he hung Listening, a gentle...visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind, (385) With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received Into the...

...experience, however, is tranquil: he listens to the owl's shouts across "the wat'ry vale" (I, 400), or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his...heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake. (409-13) If no vision of death interrupts this scene, as it does for the boy in the Drowned Man immediately...

...his skill, 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...heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake. (V, 404-13) De Quincey's comment - and he was one of the Romantic period's boldest explorers of the...

...so closely to its surroundings, that relates him more closely than any other poet to my theme. . . . the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind,...uncertain heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady la\e. Among the great company of poets physically and imaginatively nourished by our land there are...

...a nonsemiotic incarnational rhetoric. Here, when "pauses of deep silence mocked his skill" (5.405), the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind...heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake. (5.409-13) The Boy has failed in the attempt to manufacture the owl's sound; we might say that he has...