...hills are heathy', except that here and there the eye is caught by the sunny splendour of some '. . . swelling slope, Which hath a gay and gorgeous covering on, All golden with the never-bloomless furze,') any one may see, as Coleridge saw long since, the wonderful ' burst of prospect...

...hills are heathy', except that here and there the eye is caught by the sunny splendour of some '. . . swelling slope, Which hath a gay and gorgeous covering on, All golden with the never-bloomless furze,') any one may see, as Coleridge saw long since, the wonderful ' burst of prospect...

...of landscape there is no better instance than in the description of the DM, in Fears in Solitude — •A green and silent spot amid the hills, A small and silent delll O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ever poised himself— ' But the dell, Lathed by the mist...

...landscape there is no better instance than the description of The Dell, in Fears in Solitude — " A green and silent spot amid the hills, A small and...stiller place No singing skylark ever poised himself — " But the dell, Bathed by the mist is fresh and delicate As vernal cornfield, or the unripe flax...

...landscape there is no bctte1 instance than in the description of the Deli, in Fears in Solitude-- 1 A green and silent spot amid the hills, A small and silent dell 1 O'er stiller place No singing sky-la1k ever poised himself— 'But the dell, ' The gust that roared...

...Leader-Haughs and Yarrow. NICOL BURN. (An old Border Minstrel.) 1 Stretch. From "FEARS IN SOLITUDE" A GREEN and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and...stiller place No singing sky-lark ever poised himself. Oh ! 'tis a quiet spirit-healing nook ! Which all, methinks, would love; but chiefly he, The humble...

...landscape there is no bettei instance than in the description of the Deli, in Fears in Solitude— 'A green and silent spot amid the hills, A small and silent dell I O'er stiller place No singing skj-lark ever poised himself— 'But the dell, ' The gust that roared...

...written in 1798, during the alarm of an invasion." We have as a background to the poet's fears : " A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and...stiller place No singing skylark ever poised himself." 16 He contrasts the national agitation and alarm with the quiet and peace of nature : "The dell, Bathed...

...and closing lines of the poem present us with this two-fold beauty of the Quantock district : — " A green and silent spot amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller phuv No singing skylark ever poised himself. The hills are heathy, save that swelling slope, Which...

...spirit felt_thee there. FEARS IN SOLITUDE. WRITTEN IN APRIL 1798, DURING THE ALARM OF AN INVASION. A GREEN and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and...gay and gorgeous covering on, All golden with the never-bloomless furze, Which now blooms most profusely: but the dell, Bathed by the mist, is fresh...