...working upon the passive impression blended thought and matter, produced the new creation, and added ' the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream.' But this creative work of the imagination is only possible j when the relations of Nature with man...

...gentle Things. 141 Ah! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ! Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea...

...gentle Things. Ah ! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ! Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea...

...being. It were difficult to name any thing else of human workmanship so thoroughly transfigured with "the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream." The celestial and the earthly are here so commingled, — commingled, but not confounded, — that...

...Things. VOL. II. z Ah ! THEM, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ! Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea...

...VOL. II. Z 337 Ah ! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ' Amid a world how different from this } Beside a sea...

...at once an instance and an illustration, he does indeed to all thoughts and to all objects — -add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream." 172 I shall select a few examples as most obviously manifesting this faculty ; but if I should ever...

...gentle Tilings. Ah ! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile ! Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea...

...cloud or vapours ; — but it is something more than these, something beyond, and over all — . . The gleam, The light that never was on sea or land The consecration, and the poet's dream ! Genoa, 30. We arrived here late, and I should not write now, weary, weak, sick, and down-spirited...

...once an instance and an illustration, he does indeed to all thoughts and to all objects — " ' ' add the gleam. The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream." I shall select a few examples as most obviously manifesting this faculty ; but if I should ever be...