| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1857 - 480 pages
...I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride ; Of Him who walked in glory and in joy Following his plough,* along the mountain-side : By our own spirits are we deified : We Poets in our youth begin in gladness ; But thereof come in... | |
| 1861 - 1050 pages
...and then a prosaic phrase gives place to a more poetical expression. The wellknown lines, " Of Him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough along the mouutaineide," read at first, "Behind his plough upon the mountain-side." In a well-preserved quarto... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1858 - 272 pages
...tales has she to recite of " the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough along the mountain's side." She evades no difficulty ; she invokes her followers by the prophecy of difficulties... | |
| Henry Coppée - English language - 1859 - 380 pages
...;" and the other in his elaborate descriptions of rural life and persons in England : — " Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough along the mountain side." Keats, and his later type, Tennyson, should also be mentioned as being full of beauties,... | |
| Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 336 pages
...thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, — The sleepless soul that perished in his pride Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits are we deified : We poets in our youth begin in gladness ; But thereof come in the... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1907 - 876 pages
...is the German zappelnd. I had never heard of Jean Armour, of the headlong descent from being ' him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough along the mountain-side ' to hopeless black years spent in public-houses at the beck and call — think of it, think of the... | |
| Mary Eyre - 1860 - 408 pages
...down to " Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul, that perished in its pride ; And him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough along the mountain side." Our true seers and minne-singers have sprung from the people. Perhaps, because they... | |
| Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1861 - 622 pages
...wonderfully sagaW)us. All of them read the Bible." Out of this poor but acute stock came the poet " who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough along the mountain-aide." To judge from his own verse, he must have been as energetic in his labour as "his auld... | |
| 1862 - 894 pages
...of our Southern poets migkt have been glad to equal, whilst telling of the dawn of poetry in him " Who walked in glory, and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain side ! Very few " provincial writers" appear to be truly poets when they DO longer write provincially,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 770 pages
...strongest individualization, must still remain representative. The precepts of Horace, on this * [" Of him who walked in glory and in joy Following his plough, along the mountain side f — PW ii. p. 119.— 3 C.1 point, are grounded on the nature both of poetry aiid of... | |
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