...which, we will be 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...

...want no hymn to hear, or pomp to see, For all around is deep divinity ! The aspiring soul pants to its source to mount, As streams meander level with their fount ; While other years roll back their cloudy tide, And with them, all the bliss they once supplied ! — Oh ! if belov'd...

...burns within ; Till 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...

...5 1 . We should 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...

...which, we will be 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,...

...positive an assertion as regards the meandering streams. These are Montgomery's lines: — " The BOU!, aspiring, pants its source to mount, As streams meander level with their fount." And the criticism of Macaulay upon them I should have supposed was sufficiently familiar. JAMES DALLAS....

...penned. Every one 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...

...none of the poets whom he has plundered will ever think of making reprisals : " The soul, aipiring, pants its source to mount, As streams meander level with their fount." We take this to be, on the whole, the worst simihtude in the world. In the first place, no stream meanders,...

...that I have eA-er seen, as far as I can remember, except that celebrated one of Mr. Montgomery's, " The soul aspiring pants its source to mount, As streams meander level with their fount." . _ . Purther, no outwork of the Church ever has been taken or ever can be taken. Be assured of that....

...throughout, and the 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...