...are at once an instance and an illustration, he does indeed to all thoughts and to all objects — add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream."49 I shall select a few examples as most obviously manifesting this faculty ; but if I should...

...at once an instance and an illustration, he does indeed to all thoughts and to all objects — " • add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream."49 abound in happy expressions and images. What truth of nature poetically exhibited is there...

...demanded whereby we pronounce judgment, we should say with Wordsworth, there must be the power to ' add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream.' " But to this power of idealizing must be conjoined, as Henry Taylor says, " the great philosophy,"...

...is demanded whereby we pronounce judgment, we should say with Wordsworth, there must be the power to 'add the gleam, , The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream.'" But to this power of idealizing must be conjoined, as Henry Taylor says, " the great philosophy," without...

...is demanded whereby we pronounce judgment, we should say with Wordsworth, there must be the power to 'add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream.' " But to this power of idealizing must be conjoined, as Henry Taylor fays, " the great philosophy,"...

...wretched daubs, becomes almost divine; and the genius of poesy, hovering round his movements, " Adds the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream." That happy hour was the obscure birth of his immortality. Without any throes of labour, or flutterings...

...: I could have fancied that the mighty Deep Was even the gentlest of all gentle Things. All ! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what...tranquil land, beneath a sky of bliss. Thou shouldst have seemed a treasure-house divim Of peaceful years ; a chronicle of heaven ; — Of all the sunbeams that...

...tender and beautiful, giving evidence of a mind which to all lovely objects in the material world can "—Add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream." No one con read the present volume without being Btruck with the vigor and variety of the author's...

...are at once an instance and an illustration, he does indeed to all thoughts and to all objects — "Add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream." William Wordsworth was born at Cockermouth, in Cumberland, and died at his house at Rydal Mount, among...

...were difficult indeed 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 being so commingled, — commingled, but not confounded, — that...