...landscape to a blind man's eye : But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations...along the heart, And passing even into my purer mind 1 Tilll abbey was founded by the Cistercian monks, in 1131. It is now a celebrated rala, or the well...

...a landscape to a blind man's eye : But oft in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations...too, Of unremembered pleasure ; such, perhaps, As have no slight and trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little nameless,...

...such scenes as this that the poet writes : Oft in lonely rooms, and mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them In hours of weariness, sensations...sweet, Felt in the blood and felt along the heart. And who needs the memory of such scenes if we Londoners do not? No. XI. THE SUB-TROPICAL GARDEN AT BATTERSEA...

...landscape to a blind man's eye : _ Hut oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the bbod, and felt along the heart ^ And passing even into my purer mind, N With tranquil restoration :—...

...landscape to a blind man's eye : But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them In hours of weariness, sensations...feelings too Of unremembered pleasure : such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless,...

...a landscape to a blind man's eye: But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them In hours of weariness, sensations...mind, With tranquil restoration: — feelings too ^i Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion...

...the idiom of which he is adopting: But oft, in lonely rooms, and mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations...blood, and felt along the heart, And passing even into purer mind With tranquil restoration, (my italics, lines 26-31) and . . . but with pleasing thoughts...

...is a landscape to a blind man's eye; But oft in lonely rooms, and mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them In hours of weariness sensations...even into my purer mind With tranquil restoration ... (II. 23-31) The origins of this famous passage are to be found in a letter of 10 March 1795 where...

...University Press, 1941), p. 208. But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them. In hours of weariness, sensations sweet. Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart. 38 Normington-Rawling, Charles Harpur, pp. 19-20. 39 Normington-Rawling, Charles Harpur,...

...a landscape to a blind man's eye: But oft, in lonely rooms, and mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them. In hours of weariness, sensations...even into my purer mind With tranquil restoration . . . (23-31) For Wordsworth the experience of 'sensations sweet, I Felt in the blood' leads beyond...