...pauses of deep silence mocked his skill, Then, sometimes, in that silence, while he hung Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into...heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake. This Boy was taken from his Mates, and died In childhood, ere he was full twelve years old. Fair is the...

...skill, Then sometimes in that silence, while he hung Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Htu Carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain torrents ; or the visible scene* "Mr. Wordworth's having judiciously adopted "concourse uiid" in this passage for " n icitd scene" as...

...keeping the original signification full in the mind. Thus Milton again ; "Prepare thou for another scene." Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rockt, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake." The second...

...silence such as baffled his best skill : Then, sometimes, in that silence, while he hung Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain-torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery,...

...the ocean. Wordsworth's epithet " steady " is essential to perfect reflection. The visible scene " With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods,...heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake." The poet Elliott, leaving his fierce politics for nature, has described with exquisite truth these...

...pauses of deep silence mock'd his skill, Then, sometimes, in that silence, while he hung Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into...unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery," &c. The boy dies, and this historian tells us:— "I believe that oftentimes, A long half-hour together,...

...pauses of deep silence mock'd his skill, Then, sometimes, in that silence, while he hung Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into...unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery," &c. The boy dies, and this historian tells us: — " I believe that oftentimes, A long half-hour together,...

...atmosphere, and motions of the lightest breeze, and subject to agitation only from the winds — - Tbe visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind ,...heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake ! It must be noticed, as a favourable characteristic of the lakes of this country, that, though several...

...crag-encompassed stream, fell on our austere spirit even like a consolation in the midst of grief,— " With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods,...that uncertain heaven, received Into the bosom of the quiet bay." It seemed as if all the elements of nature had combined to exhibit the perfection of pictorial...

...the atmosphere, and motions of the lightest breeze, and subject to agitation" only from the winds, -The visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind...heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake I It must be noticed, as a favourable characteristic of the lakes of this country, that, though several...