| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1873 - 438 páginas
...combination of the most powerful and intense meditation with the utmost sweetness of feeling. " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free The holy time...is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration ; the broiid suu Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven is on the sea; Listen ! the... | |
| John Dennis - 1873 - 280 páginas
...my sight that heavenly face restore. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 1770—1850. THE HOLINESS OF CHILDHOOD. IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a nun f Breathless with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of... | |
| Nicholas Pike - 1873 - 596 páginas
...the Quoin as the waves beat against its bold cliffs. The gentleness of henven is on tho sen. Listen I the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A souud like thunder—everlastingly. But the sunrise ! Those who have never seen a sunrise at sea have... | |
| Samuel Stillman Greene - 1874 - 336 páginas
...light As* from a sky. Milton's Paradise Lost, Book I. • (848). b (886). '• (854). 5. • It is beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is...down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea ; ' Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make "A... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - 1875 - 728 páginas
...return : And let my spirit in that power divine Eejoice, as, through that power, it ceased to mourn. IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free; The holy time...on the Sea: Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And dbth with His eternal motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly. 1 This sonnet was suggested... | |
| Samuel John Stone - 1875 - 103 páginas
...associated with the aspects of nature, we know of no sonneteer who can take precedence of Wordsworth." " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time...down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea : Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth, with his eternal motion, make A... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1876 - 854 páginas
...ourselves. When Wordsworth in one of his finest sonnets describes the deep peace of a summer evening: " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free; The holy time...quiet as a nun, Breathless with adoration, * * The gentleness of heaven is on the sea, Ac." Or, when in the Excursion, he describes the effect of sunrise... | |
| Bill Moore - 1987 - 180 páginas
...can be so good, as in "Helen:" . . . the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless in adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquility. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Tranquility. Fair... | |
| Kenneth Burke - 1989 - 348 páginas
...sonnet by Wordsworth that is a perfect instance of the scene-agent ratio treated theologically: It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time...down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea; Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound... | |
| Elizabeth Langland - 1989 - 188 páginas
...asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! (Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 11 8-14) and It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time...with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquility; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: (It is a Beauteous Evening, 1 1 1-5) But... | |
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