...all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd." A passage possibly in Wordsworth's mind when he wrote — " When from our better selves we have too long Been...pleasures tired, How gracious, how benign is solitude." — p. 100. We now come to a book upon books, which to us seems a somewhat disappointing one, if not...

...God's works, Whether held forth in Nature or in Man, Through pregnant vision, separate or conjoined. When from our better selves we have too long Been...droop, Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, n2 How gracious, how benign, is Solitude ; How potent a mere image of her sway; Mont potent when impressed...

...God's works, Whether held forth in Nature or in Man, Through pregnant vision, separate or conjoined. When from our better selves we have too long Been...hurrying world, and droop, Sick of its business, of its pleasure tired, How gracious, how benign, is Solitude ; How potent a mere image of her sway ; Most...

...God's works, Whether held forth in Nature or in Man, Through pregnant vision, separate or conjoined. When from our better selves we have too long Been...hurrying world, and droop, Sick of its business, of its pleasure tired. SUMMER VACATION. How gracious, how benign, is Solitude ; How potent a mere image of...

...this natural agency are described by Wordsworth in the fourth book of his autobiographical poem : ' When from our better selves we have too long Been...pleasures tired, How gracious, how benign is solitude ! ' ' And, describing the effect of one of his walks at early dawn at this time, and in this country,...

...Man, Through pregnant vision, separate or conjoined. When from our better selves we have too Ion" • Been parted by the hurrying world, and droop, Sick of its business, of its pleasure tired, How gracious, how benign, is Solitude; How potent a mere image of her sway ; Most potent...

...God's works, Whether held forth in Nature or in Man, Through pregnant vision, separate or conjoined. When from our better selves we have too long Been...hermit, Deep in the bosom of the wilderness ; Votary (in vast cathedral, where no foot Is treading, where no other face is seen) Kneeling at prayers ; or watchman...

...God's works, Whether held forth in Nature or in Man, Through pregnant vision, separate or conjoined. When from our better selves we have too long Been...hurrying world, and droop, Sick of its business, of its pleasure tired, I 1 1 Is treading, where no other face is seen) Kneeling at prayers ; or watchman on...

...common dawn — Dews, vapors, and the melody of birds, And laborers going forth to till the fields. When from our better selves we have too long Been...hurrying world, and droop, Sick of its business, of its pleasure tired, How gracious, how benign, is Solitude ; How potent a mere image of her sway; Most potent...

...heaven. What a strain he pours on the ears of the fops, loungers, gladiators, and slaves of time ! — When from our better selves we have too long Been...impressed upon the mind With an appropriate human centre, — a hermit, Deep in the bosom of the wilderness ; • Votary, in vast cathedral, where no foot Is...