 We take this to be, on the whole, the worst similitude in the world. In the first place, no stream meanders, or can possibly meander, level with its fount. In the next place, if streams did meander level with their founts, no two motions can be less like...  Notes and Queries - Page 1571884Full view - About this book
 | 1830 - 622 pages
...none of the poets whom he has plundered will ever think of making reprisals : - The soul, aspiring, pants its source to mount, As streams meander level with their fount.' We take this to be, on the whole, the worst similitude in the world. In the first place, no stream... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - English poetry - 1823 - 326 pages
...here. We want no hymn to hear, or pomp to see, For all around is deep divinity ! The soul aspiring pants its source to mount, As streams meander level with their fount; While other years unroll their cloudy tide, And with them all the bliss they Once supplied ! Oh! if... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - English poetry - 1828 - 230 pages
...here. We want no hymn to hear, or pomp to see, For all around is deep divinity ! The soul aspiring pants its source to mount, As streams meander level with their fount ; While other years unroll their cloudy tide, And with them all the bliss they once supplied ! Oh !... | |
 | Southern States - 1828 - 638 pages
...here. "We want no hymn to hear, or pomp to see, For all around is deep divinity ! The soul aspiring pants its source to mount, As streams meander level with their fount ; While other years unroll their cloudy tide, And with them all the bliss they once supplied ! Oh !... | |
 | Arts - 1830 - 824 pages
...wonder starts with a bcwild'riiig fear, As if the shadow of a God were near ! " " The soul aspiring, pants its source to mount, As streams meander level with their fount." Is not the following a strange address to the Deity ? — " Yes ! pause and flunk, within one fleeting... | |
 | Peel Club, Glasgow - English literature - 1840 - 256 pages
...suppose that a new-born sun was no clearer than a sun that had attained its prime. The soul aspiring pants its source to mount, As streams meander level with their fount! ! ! P. 53. What consummate absurdity ! The soul panting to mount its source, compared with the stream... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1844 - 446 pages
...bound, none of the poets whom he has plundered will ever think of making reprisals: "The soul, aspiring, pants its source to mount, As streams meander level with their fount." We take this to be, on the whole, the worst similitude in the world. In the first place no stream meanders,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1884 - 668 pages
...of the poets whom he bas plundered will ever think of making reprisals : — ' The soul, aspiring, pants its source to mount, As streams meander level with their fount/ We take this to be, on the whole, the worst similitude in the world. In the first place, no stream... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1886 - 604 pages
...knows Macaulay's observation upon a certain simile in Hobert Montgomery's poem. " The Soul aspiring pants its source to mount, As streams meander level with their fount." " We take this," says Macaulay, with characteristic energy, " to be on the whole the worst similitude... | |
 | Thomas Edward Kebbel - Great Britain - 1864 - 432 pages
...style much more so than is commonly supposed. For instance, of the poet's lines — The soul aspiring pants its source to mount, As streams meander level with their fount. " We take this to be," says Macaulay, " the worst similitude in the world. In the first place, no stream... | |
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