...shapes, and forms ; And, being still unsatisfied with aught Of dimmer character, he thence attained An active power to fasten images Upon his brain ;...appetite, nor this alone Appeased his yearning : in the after-day Of boyhood, many an hour in caves forlorn, And 'mid the hollow depths of naked crags He sate,...

...shapes, and forms; And, being still unsatisfied with aught Of dimmer character, he thence attained An active power to fasten images Upon his brain; and...child's eagerness Incessantly to turn his ear and eye 150 On all things which the moving seasons brought To feed such appetite — nor this alone Appeased...

...shapes, and forms ; And, being still unsatisfied with aught Of dimmer character, he thence attained An active power to fasten images Upon his brain ;...eagerness -~- \}- ' Incessantly to turn his ^ear and eyj^ 150 On all things which the moving seasons brought To feed such appetite — nor this alone Appeased...

...thoughts, sh.i; and forms; And, being still unsatisfied with aught Of dimmer character, he thence attained An active power to fasten images Upon his brain; and on their pictured lis Intensely brooded, even till they acquire he liveliness of dreams. Nor did he fail, ' hile yet...

...impressions he received from Nature, grew ' unsatisfied with aught of dimmer character ', and attained the power to fasten images Upon his brain ; and on their...even till they acquired The liveliness of dreams. 12, 13. Cf. Blake's Night : The moon, like a flower, In heaven's high bower, With silent delight Sits...

...shapes, and forms; And, being still unsatisfied with aught Of dimmer character, he thence attained An active power to fasten images Upon his brain ;...— nor this alone Appeased his yearning: — in the after-day Of boyhood, many an hour in caves forlorn, And 'mid the hollow depths of naked crags He sate,...

...shapes, and forms; 25 And, being still unsatisfied with aught Of dimmer character, he thence attained An active power to fasten images Upon his brain ;...pictured lines Intensely brooded, even till they acquired 30 The liveliness of dreams. Nor did he fail, While yet a child, with a child's eagerness Incessantly...

...two following passages. The first is from the Excursion (Book I.) and is as follows: — He attained An active power to fasten images Upon his brain; and...the moving seasons brought ' To feed such appetite. . . . But for the growing Youth What soul was his, when, from the naked top Of some bold headland,...

...like substances, and almost seemed To haunt the bodily sense . . . he thence attained An urth't• power to fasten images Upon his brain, and on their...even till they acquired The liveliness of dreams. (Pedlar, 30-4, 39-43; Wordsworth's italics) If one thinks of the various stages of this process in...

..."remembrances, thoughts, shapes, and forms" and has images fastened upon his brain (11:142—146): he "on their pictured lines / Intensely brooded, even till they acquired / The liveliness of dreams." (146 —148) And like the devouring eye ("Lick chops and basta" [59]), the Wanderer is hungry: he turns...