...his heart the voice Of mountain torrents; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind 410 With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain Heaven, received Into the oosom of the steady Lake. This Boy was taken from his Mates, and died In childhood, ere he was full...

...I object to any extension of its meaning, because the word is already Would enter unawares into Ms mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods,...heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake"* more equivocal than might be -wished ; inasmuch as in the limited' use, which I recommend, it may still...

...torrents; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind II 1th all 1ts solemn 1magery, 1ts rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake.23 — Whilst the ear was tense to catch the faintest sound, the eye and brain became suddenly...

...his skill, Then sometimes in that silence, while he hung Listening, a gentle shock of mild surpri/e Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain...heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake. Winander LakeWindermere in the Lake District of England concourse crowd, gathering jocund — jolly...

...while he hung Listening, a gende shock of mild surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice 20 Of mountain torrents, or the visible scene Would enter...imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, receiv'd Into the bosom of the steady lake. Fair are the woods, and beauteous is the spot, The vale...

...owls and listening to the echoes of his voice come back over the water from the surrounding hills: Then, sometimes, in that silence, while he hung Listening,...heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake. What is 'carried far into his heart', enters 'unawares into his mind', is impossible to paraphrase....

...Wordsworth, like the rabbinical fathers, affirms passive receptiveness to the experience of being alive: In that silence, while he hung Listening, a gentle...heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake. Did Trilling need the rabbinical fathers to say what he wanted to say about Wordsworth? Doesn't Christianity...

...considerable mimetic "skill" (488). At such times, while in the intervening silence the lad "hung," patiently Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried...heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake. (489-96) Readers witness a confluence of mind and nature, made all the more specific by the narrator's...

...deep silence' that follow when the owls fail to respond to the Boy of Winander's 'mimic hootings,' ... a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into...heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake. (5.407-13) What is imagined here is a pre-conscious, even accidental, connection to a materiality that...

...while he hung Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprize Has carried far into his heart the voice 20 Of mountain torrents, or the visible scene Would enter...imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, receiv'd Into the bosom of the steady lake.56 Fair are the woods, and beauteous is the spot, The vale...