...on a nature originally kind and genial. The Wanderer has great hope in the progress of Man: " I hare seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to bis ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; Towhich, in silence hushed, his vcrysoul Listened...

...the sounding of his whelk, of storms at sea, and of the fluxes of the tide ! For, with Wordsworth, I have seen " A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...and his countenance soon Brighten'd with joy ; for munnurings from within Were heard, — sonorous cadences whereby, To his belief, the monitor express'd...

...birthplace moan, as moans the ocean-shell. Such a shell as Wordsworth has beautifully described : — "I have seen A curious child who dwelt upon a tract...To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intently, and his countenance soon Brighten'd with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard —...

...birthplace moan, as moans the ocean-shell. Such a shell as Wordsworth has beautifully described: — "I have seen A curious child who dwelt upon a tract...To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intently, and his countenance soon Brighten'd with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard —...

...German ever read Wordsworth's Excursion, yet, in that most natural poem, we find the same thought. " I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell, To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmuriugs...

...By the inferior Faculty that moulds, With her minute and speculative pains, Opinion, ever changing ! I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell ; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance...

...birthplace moan, as moans the ocean-shell. Such a"shell as Wordsworth has beautifully described : — "I have seen A curious child who dwelt upon a tract...shell ; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listened intently, and his countenance soon Brighten'd with joy; for murmurings from within Were heard...

...the most intolerant of that school of critics, who vainly attempted to write and sneer him down. " I have seen A curious child who dwelt upon a tract...ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth- lipped shell, To which, in silence hushed, his very sold Listened intensely; and his countenance...

...Wordsworth occurs the following exquisite passage : — " I have seen A curious child, applying to his enr lans. Sod. It will be diffi Brightcn'd with joy ; for murmuring from within Were heard sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief,...

...Landor. I have written some worse myself. L. So has Wordsworth. Attend to the echo in the Excursion : " I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...and his countenance soon Brighten'd with joy; for, murmuring from within, Were heard sonorous cadences, whereby, To his belief, the monitor express'd...