...infinite variety of natural appearances which had been unnoticed by the poets of any age or country, and I made a resolution to supply, in some degree, the deficiency." In later life he is said to have been impatient of any thing spoken or written by another about mountains,...

...spot where this first struck me. The moment was important in my poetical history ; for I date from it my consciousness of the infinite variety of natural...acquainted with them, and I made a resolution to supply the deficiency." While Wordsworth at the age of twenty-three, as Lowell remarks, could not have been...

...formally dedicated himself, like Milton, to poetry. At the early age of fourteen he discovered his "consciousness of the infinite variety of natural...resolution to supply in some degree the deficiency." Mr. Calvert's legacy enabled him to carry out this resolution. In 1795-96 he composed The Borderers,...

...formally dedicated himself, like Milton, to poetry. At the early age of fourteen he discovered his " consciousness of the infinite variety of natural appearances which had been unnoticed by the poets of any ago or country, so far as I was acquainted with them, and I made a resolution to supply in some degree...

...very spot where this struck me. The moment was important in my poetical history, for I date from it my consciousness of the infinite variety of natural...been unnoticed by the poets of any age or country, and I made a resolution to supply, in. some degree, the deficiency." In later life he is said to have...

...important in my tat 1 'Lite from it my coni*ne«R bf Ibi Infinite variety of natural ippearances viiicn had been unnoticed by the poets of any age or country,...have been' at that time above fourteen years of age. The description of the swaos, that follows, was taken from the daily opportunities I had of observing...

...; for I date from it my con*K>oan*s» of the infinite variety of natural ippearance* which hod teen unnoticed by the poets of any age or country, so far...have been at that time above fourteen years of age. The description of the swans, that follows, was taken from the daily opportunities I bad of observing...

...where this first struck me. . . . The moment was important in my poetical history ; for I date from it my consciousness of the infinite variety of natural...resolution to supply in some degree the deficiency." It is plain that Wordsworth's memory was playing him a trick here, misled by that instinct (it may...

...spot where this first struck me. The moment was important in my poetical history ; for I date from it my consciousness of the infinite variety of natural...been unnoticed by the poets of any age or country, and I made a resolution to supply in some degree the deficiency." Elsewhere Wordsworth wrote, " Excepting...

...communion. He speaks somewhere of the moment, so important in his poetical history, from which he dates the "consciousness of the infinite variety of natural...been unnoticed by the poets of any age or country," and of his resolution to supply in some degree the deficiency. That he succeeded to a marvelous degree...