Aesthetical and literaryE. Moxon, 1876 |
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... miles , contains scarcely an acre of ground suffi- ciently accommodating for a sledge to be trailed along its surface . -Mr . Malcolm Laing has ably shown that the diction of this pretended translation is a motley assemblage from all ...
... miles , contains scarcely an acre of ground suffi- ciently accommodating for a sledge to be trailed along its surface . -Mr . Malcolm Laing has ably shown that the diction of this pretended translation is a motley assemblage from all ...
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... miles distant from the shore . It was about the hour of sunset , and the sea was perfectly calm ; and in a quarter where its surface was indistinguishable from the western sky , hazy , and luminous with the setting sun , appeared a tall ...
... miles distant from the shore . It was about the hour of sunset , and the sea was perfectly calm ; and in a quarter where its surface was indistinguishable from the western sky , hazy , and luminous with the setting sun , appeared a tall ...
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... miles from any medical advice on which we can have the least reliance . Her case has been a mild one , but sufficient to alarm us much , and Mrs. Wordsworth and her aunt have undergone much fatigue in sitting up , as for nearly a ...
... miles from any medical advice on which we can have the least reliance . Her case has been a mild one , but sufficient to alarm us much , and Mrs. Wordsworth and her aunt have undergone much fatigue in sitting up , as for nearly a ...
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... mile of my own house , re- markably so , though [ he has something ] of a stare and vacancy in his countenance . A friend of mine , knowing that some persons had a dislike to the poem , such as you have expressed , advised me to add a ...
... mile of my own house , re- markably so , though [ he has something ] of a stare and vacancy in his countenance . A friend of mine , knowing that some persons had a dislike to the poem , such as you have expressed , advised me to add a ...
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... miles beyond that town are the ruins of Kirkstall Abbey , should that road to Skipton be chosen ; but the other by Otley may be made much more interesting by turning off at Addington to Bolton Bridge , for the sake of visiting the Abbey ...
... miles beyond that town are the ruins of Kirkstall Abbey , should that road to Skipton be chosen ; but the other by Otley may be made much more interesting by turning off at Addington to Bolton Bridge , for the sake of visiting the Abbey ...
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admiration Alps Ambleside ancient appearance Bassenthwaite Lake beauty Blowick Borrowdale Buttermere character clouds Coleorton colour cottages DEAR SIR GEORGE degree delight effect epitaph especially expression fancy favourable feeling forms genius Grasmere green ground Hawkshead Helvellyn hill human imagination inhabitants instance interesting island Kendal Keswick Kirkby Lonsdale labour Lady Beaumont Lake land landscape Langdale language letter living look Loughrigg Fell Loughrigg Tarn manner miles mind moun mountains native Nature objects observed passed passion Patterdale Penrith persons pleasing pleasure poem Poet poetic poetry Pooley Bridge produced Reader regret road rocks Rydal Rydal Mount scarcely scenes seen side sight Skiddaw spirit steep stone stream sublimity summit tains Tarn taste things thought tion torrents traveller trees truth Ullswater Ulverston Vale valley verse Wastdale whole WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Windermere winds wish woods words WORDSWORTH writing
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Página 337 - Were all like workings of one mind, the features Of the same face, blossoms upon one tree ; Characters of the great Apocalypse, The types and symbols of Eternity, Of first, and last, and midst, and without end.
Página 81 - The principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men...
Página 91 - In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs: in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed; the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.
Página 241 - Of mountain torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake.
Página 104 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Página 82 - ... what is really important to men, so, by the repetition and continuance of this act, our feelings will be connected with important subjects, till at length, if we be originally possessed of much sensibility, such habits of mind will be produced...
Página 152 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Página 134 - As when far off at sea a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs ; they, on the trading flood, Through the wide Ethiopian to the cape, Ply stemming nightly toward the pole : so seemed Far off the flying fiend.
Página 41 - Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day.
Página 144 - On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of imagery before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed ; And I am conscious of affecting thoughts And dear remembrances, whose presence soothes Or elevates the Mind, intent to weigh The good and evil of our mortal state. — To these emotions, whenceeoe'er they come, Whether from breath of outward circumstance, Or from the Soul— an impulse to herself— I would give...