| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 Seiten
...infant slumbers peacefully. Tis calm indeed ! so calm, that it disturbs And vexes meditation with .ts strange And extreme silentness. Sea, hill, and wood,...burnt fire, and quivers not ; Only that film, which fluttered on the grate, Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing. Methinks, its motion in this... | |
| Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - 460 Seiten
...Their grand commission." x " Pim there they found Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve." 2 " The thin blue flame Lies on my low burnt fire, and quivers not ; Only that ,/i/ni, which fluttered on the grate, Still flutters there." 8 " It was a close, warm, breezeless summer... | |
| Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - 452 Seiten
...unseal Their grand commission." 1 " Him there they found Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve." " The thin blue flame Lies on my low burnt fire, and quivers not ; Only that^Hm, which fluttered on the grate, Still flutters there."3 " It was a close, warm, breezeless summer... | |
| 1895 - 848 Seiten
...evanescent forms of light to bear on an object as prosaic as his bedroom fire. When he tells us that the thin blue flame Lies on my low burnt fire, and quivers not, how expressively, as it were with a Zoroastrian touch, he associates the life in the flame with his... | |
| David Daiches - 1969 - 356 Seiten
...suits Abstruser musings: save that at my side My cradled infant slumbers peacefully. Tis calm indeed! so calm, that it disturbs And vexes meditation with...village! Sea, and hill, and wood, With all the numberless goings-on of life, Inaudible as dreams! the thin blue flame Lies on my low-burnt fire, and quivers... | |
| Hendrik Roelof Rookmaaker - 1984 - 232 Seiten
...he is confronted with an alien nature which is experienced as vaguely threatening, Tis calm indeed! so calm, that it disturbs And vexes meditation with...village! Sea, and hill, and wood, With all the numberless goings-on of life, Inaudible as dreams! (11. 8-13) although to his blunted sensibility it appears devoid... | |
| D.A. Stansfield - 1984 - 338 Seiten
...Beddoes". Some two years later Coleridge, watching by his own fireside, 27 transformed the homely to magic: the thin blue flame, Lies on my low burnt fire, and quivers not; Only that film which fluttered on the grate, Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing. Beddoes' description of the snug... | |
| Richard Eldridge - 1989 - 236 Seiten
...with his desire to know his place in nature and society. Nature, in her hiddenness ("Tis calm indeed! so calm, that it disturbs / And vexes meditation with its strange / And extreme silentness" [8-10]), calls forth the desire to know one's place in nature but withholds its full satisfaction.... | |
| Jack Stillinger - 1994 - 268 Seiten
...slumbers peacefully. 'Tis calm indeed! so calm, that it disturbs And vexes meditation with its strange 10 And extreme silentness. Sea, hill, and wood, This...flame Lies on my low burnt fire, and quivers not; is Only that film, which fluttered on the grate, Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing. Methinks,... | |
| Robert Creeley - 1994 - 140 Seiten
...York 10011 Contents 35 3 (k, CODA: ROMAN SKETCHBOOK 103 INDEX OF TITLES 115 for Pen, Will and Hannah ...Sea, hill and wood, This populous village! Sea,...numberless goings on of life, Inaudible as dreams! the thin-blue flame Lies on my low-burnt fire, and quivers not; Only that film, which fluttered on the... | |
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