A Primer of Wordsworth: With a Critical EssayMethuen, 1897 - 227 páginas |
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... thing , like the fear or the joy that pass , but it be- came an affection of the mind , an abiding intellectual dis- position , dormant for a while beneath the weight of vulgar life , but rememberable , and to be revived at last in the ...
... thing , like the fear or the joy that pass , but it be- came an affection of the mind , an abiding intellectual dis- position , dormant for a while beneath the weight of vulgar life , but rememberable , and to be revived at last in the ...
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... things might show that I could do some- thing . " They showed little more than a liking for the imitators of Pope , and their author shared his sister's regret " that he did not submit the works to the inspec- tion of some friend before ...
... things might show that I could do some- thing . " They showed little more than a liking for the imitators of Pope , and their author shared his sister's regret " that he did not submit the works to the inspec- tion of some friend before ...
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... thing that a young man , dependent on uncongenial relations , whose intellect , more- over , was hardly awake to life , should have wrung these patient lessons from the turmoil and confusion of a stu- pendous political conflagration ...
... thing that a young man , dependent on uncongenial relations , whose intellect , more- over , was hardly awake to life , should have wrung these patient lessons from the turmoil and confusion of a stu- pendous political conflagration ...
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... things of every day , and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural , by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom , and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us " ( Biog . Lit ...
... things of every day , and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural , by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom , and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us " ( Biog . Lit ...
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... things do not occur often in life . If we live , we shall meet again ; that is my consolation when I think of these things . . . . Farewell ! . . . Your sincere friend , for such I will call myself , though slow to use a word of such ...
... things do not occur often in life . If we live , we shall meet again ; that is my consolation when I think of these things . . . . Farewell ! . . . Your sincere friend , for such I will call myself , though slow to use a word of such ...
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Página 175 - The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose; The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Página 74 - Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Página 93 - The floating clouds their state shall lend To her ; for her the willow bend ; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Página 48 - The immeasurable height Of woods decaying, never to be decayed, The stationary blasts of waterfalls, And in the narrow rent at every turn Winds thwarting winds, bewildered and forlorn, The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky...
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Página 100 - But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square ? Who knows the individual hour in which His habits were first sown, even as a seed? Who that shall point as with a wand and say " This portion of the river of my mind Came from yon fountain...
Página 178 - No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; I hear the Echoes through the mountains throng, The Winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay; Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity...
Página 187 - Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, in gladness lay Beneath him: - Far and wide the clouds were touched, And in their silent faces could he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle: sensation, soul, and form, All melted into him; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live; they were his life.
Página 4 - To say that a book is by the author of "Mehalah" is to imply that it contains a story cast on strong lines, containing dramatic possibilities, vivid and sympathetic descriptions of Nature, and a wealth of ingenious imagery.