...in the mind of the young enthusiast desert him in maturer years. "The sounding cataract Haunted him, like a passion ; the tall rock, The mountain, and...gloomy wood. Their colors and their forms, were then to him An appetite ; a feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or...

...born, and a poet he will die. Let him speak of himself in his early days : " I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion:...rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite : a feeling, and a love." Tintern Abbey. Let him...

...13* To me was all in all.—I cannot paint And their glad animal movements, all gone by) What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion:...The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite: a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter...

...him speak of himself in his early days : " I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract X Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite : a feeling, and a love." Tintern Abbey. Let him...

...a man Flying from something that he dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For nature Iben (The coarser pleasure of my boyish days And their...Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, anil the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their forms were then to me An appetite ; a feeling...

...And their glad animal movements, all gone by) To me was all in all. — I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion...The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite — a feeling and a love, That had no need of...

...things ; he could realize beauty in all the works of creation. " the sounding cataract Haunted him like a passion ; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms were then to him An appetite, a feeling, and a love, That had no need of a...

...glory, and drew men's eyes and thoughts towards it with a fresh attraction and a new-born ardor : — The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion ;...had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye. And, in Wordsworth's mind at least, this delight in the mere...

...youth, indeed, he worshipped natural objects with an almost pagan illtenuity. I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion;...colors and their forms were then to me An appetite. In these things he then neither saw nor required any symbolism. But presently there came a change,...

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