...character of his picture by a rapid sketch of still nobler features: — [Rural Sounds.] Nor rural eights octrines fashioned to the varying hour »weep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of ocean...

...Just undulates upon the listening ear, Groves, heaths, and smoking villages, remote. RURAL SOUNDS. NOR rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate...shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind ; Unnumbered branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast fluttering, all at once. Nor less...

...ploughmen in the fields and woodmen in the forests, of wild birds, tame hares, and grazing cattle. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate...shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind. 1 That last line might serve as motto for a large part of Cowper's work. He who would know the poet...

...ploughmen in the fields and woodmen in the forests, of wild birds, tame hares, and grazing cattle. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate...winding shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind.1 That last line might serve as motto for a large part of Cowper's work. He who would know the...

...innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. 4377 Goldsmith : Des. Tillage. Line 57. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate...shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind. 4378 Cowper : Task. Bk. i. Line 181. Ye gentle souls, who dream of rural ease, Whom the smooth stream...

...illumined by imaginative insight and regulated by a feeling for traditional form not too oppressive. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate...branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast fluttering, all at once. Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer...

...illumined by imaginative insight and regulated by a feeling for traditional form not too oppressive. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate...shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind ; Unnnmber'd branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast fluttering, all at once. Nor less...

...various incidents of a simple out-of-door life : " Mighty winds That sweep the skirt of some far-reaching wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The...shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind." These lines would have been incomprehensible to the wits, essentially townsmen, who were the literary...

...at home, And Nature in her cultivated trim, Dressed to his taste, inviting him abroad. Cowper: Task. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate...shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind. Cowper: Task. Courage, Fortitude, Valor, Daring; see Action. Screw your courage to the sticking-place,...

...what poems are the following extracts taken? Comment briefly on the thought and versification: (a) "Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading...not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore." (6) "Resound, ye hills, resound my mournful strain, Now bright Arcturus glads the teeming grain, Now...