| 1850 - 806 pages
...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.'... | |
| Thomas N. Brown - 1859 - 360 pages
...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 - Aesthetics - 1817 - 316 pages
...Sear me to the heart of France Is the longing of the shield — Tell thy name, thou trembling Jleld ! Field of death, where'er thou be, Groan thou with...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... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 326 pages
...his ancestors restored, Like a re-appearing star, Like a glory from afar, first shall head thejlock of war !" Alas ! the fervent harper did not know,...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... | |
| 1817 - 708 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
| English literature - 1817 - 694 pages
...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... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1819 - 378 pages
...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... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1819 - 386 pages
...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...is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the louely hills." Before a man can understand and relish his poems, his mind must, in some measure, pass... | |
| 1819 - 432 pages
...the wildest impulses of the imagination. of the world were immediately for gotten on contemplating " The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is amongtlie lonely hilts.* " He passed the night in a feverish state of joy and horrour. Front the window... | |
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