 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 Seiten
...writers to Shakspeare and Milton, and yet in a mind perfectly unborrowed, and his own. To employ his own words, which are at once an instance and an illustration,...does indeed, to all thoughts and to all objects— ' Acid the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream.'... | |
 | Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 376 Seiten
...sublime and enchanting regions — regions which, to all that is lovely in the forms and colors of earth, "Add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream." A motion of the hand brings all Arcadia to sight. The war of Troy can, at our bidding, rage in the... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1872 - 488 Seiten
...being. It were difficult to name any thing else of human workmanship so thoroughly transfigured with "the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream." The celestial and the earthly are here so commingled, — commingled, but not confounded, — that... | |
 | J. Campbell Shairp - 1872 - 364 Seiten
...so powerfully the familiar appearances and common facts of earth, adding, as he himself says, — " The gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream," one is tempted to ask, Is this true, is the light real, or only fantastic? Now in this, I conceive,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1873 - 840 Seiten
...amongst the fields and hills; but that he steeps them in an ideal light, that he sheds upon them " the gleam — The light that never was on sea or land ; The consecration and the poet's dream;" and that he makes us feel that wonderful connection between nature and the soul of man, which is indeed... | |
 | Mary Ann Reynolds Page - 1873 - 226 Seiten
...except as seen through her eyes, and colored by her imagination and feeling. It is this that adds — " The gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream."] December 30. A perfectly lovely day. Yesterday it was rather chilly and cloudy, but it is quite clear... | |
 | 1873 - 808 Seiten
...amongst the fields and hills; but that he steeps them in an ideal light, that he sheds upon them " the gleam — The light that never was on sea or land ; The consecration and the poet's dream;" and that he makes us feel that wonderful connection between nature and the soul of man, which is indeed... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1874 - 396 Seiten
...picture, the work of Art. Ah ! then, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; aud add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted tliee, thou hoary Pile, Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea that... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1875 - 374 Seiten
...picture, the work of Art. Ah ! then, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile, Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea that... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1875 - 728 Seiten
...all gentle Things. Ah! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream j I would have planted tbce, thou hoary Pile Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea that... | |
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Ah ! then if mine had been the painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream... 
