 ... Most musical, most melancholy"* bird ! A melancholy bird? Oh! idle thought! In nature there is nothing melancholy. But some night-wandering man, whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love,...  Woodnotes, for all seasons [an anthology]. - Seite 25von Wood-notes - 1842Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1798 - 240 Seiten
...grievous wrong, Or slow distemper or neglected love, (And so, poor Wretch ! fill'd all things with himself And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrows) he and such as he First nam'd these notes a melancholy strain ; And many a poet echoes the... | |
 | 1799 - 614 Seiten
...wrong, Or slow distemper or neglected love, (And so, poor Wretch ! fill'd all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrows) he and such as he First nam'd these notes a melancholy strain ; .And manya poet echoes the... | |
 | 1799 - 618 Seiten
...wrong, Or slow distemper or neglected love, (And so, poor Wretch ! fill'd all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrows) he and such as he First nam'd these notes a melancholy strain ; And many a poet echoes the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 272 Seiten
...grievous wrong, Or slow distemper or negleded love, (And so, poor Wretch ! fill'd all things with himself And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrows) he and such as he First named these notes a melancholy strain : And many a poet echoes the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 Seiten
...! fill'd all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrows) he and such as he First named these notes a melancholy strain z ... And many a poet echoes the conceit ; Poet, who hath been building up the rhyme * " Most musical,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 Seiten
...grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor Wretch! fill'd all things with himself And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrows) he, and such as he, First nam'd these notes a melancholy strain; And many a poet echoes the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 Seiten
...wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch ! fill'd all things with himself,. And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrows) he and such as he First named these notes a melancholy strain : And many a poet echoes the... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1805 - 284 Seiten
...than which none could be more painful to him, except, perhaps, that of having ridiculed his Bible. And many a poet echoes the conceit ; Poet, who hath...building up the rhyme When he had better far have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest- dell By sun- or moon-light, to the influxes Of... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 Seiten
...filled all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds- tell back the tale Of his own sorrows) he and such as he First named these notes a melancholy strain : * " Most musical, mast melancholy." This passage in Milton possesses an excellence far superior to... | |
 | 1816 - 420 Seiten
...description : it is spoken in the character of the melancholy man, and has therefore a dramatic propriety. And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrows), he, and such as he, And many a poet echoes the conceit, First named these notes a'melancholy... | |
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