 | 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 Shakespeare - 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 - 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 - 1820 - 748 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 Seam, t that never was on sea. or land, The consecration and the poet's dream, what a landscape might... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 pages
...glean, The lustre, known to neither sea nor land, Out borrowed from the youthful Poet's dream ; 246 I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile! Amid a world how different from this! !>side a sea that could not cease to smile; On tranquil laod, beneath a sky of bliss. A Picture had... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...mood , which season takes •way . or brings: 370 871 Ah ! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hund, To express what then I saw; and add the gleam, The light that never wag, on sea or hind, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thcc, thou hoary... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1832 - 378 pages
...brings: I could have fancied that the mighty Deep Was even the gentlest of all gentle Tilings. Ah ! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what...smile ; On tranquil land, beneath a sky of bliss. A Picture had it been of lasting ease, Elysian quiet, without toil or strife ; No motion but the moving... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1834 - 360 pages
...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." I shall select a few examples as most obviously manifesting this faculty ; but if I should ever be fortunate... | |
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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! 
