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Literary Quotes: The Romantic North
From
The Prelude
by William Wordsworth, 1805 |
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Feel
like a flash: I look’d about, and lo!
The Moon stood naked in the Heavens, at height
Immense above my head, and on the shore
I found myself of a huge sea of mist,
Which meek and silent, rested at me feet:
A hundred hills their dusky banks upheaved
All over this still Ocean, and beyond,
Far, far beyond, the vapours shot themselves,
In headlands, tongues and promontory shapes
Into the Sea, the real Sea, that seem’d
To dwindle and give up its majesty,
Usurp’d upon as far as sight could reach.
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| Letters
of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 14 January 1803 |
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The
farther I ascend from animated Nature, from men and cattle, &
the common birds of the woods, & fields, the greater becomes
in me the Intensity of the feeling of Life. |
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From
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte, 1847 |
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The
abrupt descent of Penistone Craggs particularly attracted her
notice, especially when the setting sun shone upon it, and the
topmost Heights; and the whole landscape besides lay in shadow.
I explained that they were bare masses of stone, with hardly enough
earth to nourish a stunted tree. |
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