 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...  The Wanderer in Syria - Page 258by George William Curtis - 1852 - 348 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1889 - 614 pages
...working upon the passive impression blended thought and matter, produced the new creation, and added ' the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream.' But this creative work of the imagination is only possible j when the relations of Nature with man... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pages
...I could have fancied that the mighty Deep Was even the gentlest of all gentle Things. Ah ! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...could have fancied that the mighty Deep Was even the gentlest of all gentle Things. 141 Ah! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...have fancied that the mighty Deep Was even the gentlest of all gentle Things. VOL. II. z Ah ! THEM, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...fancied that the mighty Deep Was even the gentlest of all gentle Things. VOL. II. Z 337 Ah ! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 316 pages
...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." 172 I shall select a few examples as most obviously manifesting this faculty ; but if I should ever... | |
 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1820 - 748 pages
...pine-trees waved their majestic tops, •' with every plant, in sign of worship waved." Ah, then if mine had been the painter's hand, To express what then I saw, and add the Seam, t that never was on sea. or land, The consecration and the poet's dream, what a landscape might... | |
 | Europe - 1820 - 742 pages
...dark pine-trees waved their majestic tops, " with every plant, in sign of worship waved." Ah, then if mine had been the painter's hand, To express what then I saw, and add the S'eam, , , t that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream, what a landscape... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...I could have fancied that the mighty Deep Was even the gentlest of all gentle Things. Ah ! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The lustre, known to neither sea nor land, But borrowed from the youthful Poet's dream ; I would have planted... | |
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