The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volumen1Little, Brown, 1854 |
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... things he said " that it was the province of a great poet to raise people up to his own level , not to descend to theirs , " memorable words , the more memorable that a literary life of sixty years was in keeping with them . " After ...
... things he said " that it was the province of a great poet to raise people up to his own level , not to descend to theirs , " memorable words , the more memorable that a literary life of sixty years was in keeping with them . " After ...
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... thing for an author to undertake to show the goodness of his verses by the logic and learning of his prose ; but Wordsworth carried to the reform of poetry all that fervor and faith which had lost their political object , and it is ...
... thing for an author to undertake to show the goodness of his verses by the logic and learning of his prose ; but Wordsworth carried to the reform of poetry all that fervor and faith which had lost their political object , and it is ...
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... at the opening of each , and preparing pit- falls for every conceivable emotion , with guide- boards to tell each when and where it must be caught . But if these things stood in the way of imme- SKETCH OF WORDSWORTH'S LIFE . XXXV.
... at the opening of each , and preparing pit- falls for every conceivable emotion , with guide- boards to tell each when and where it must be caught . But if these things stood in the way of imme- SKETCH OF WORDSWORTH'S LIFE . XXXV.
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William Wordsworth. But if these things stood in the way of imme- diate appreciation , he had another theory which interferes more seriously with the total and perma- nent effect of his poems . He was theoretically determined not only to ...
William Wordsworth. But if these things stood in the way of imme- diate appreciation , he had another theory which interferes more seriously with the total and perma- nent effect of his poems . He was theoretically determined not only to ...
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... things , and to trust ourselves to our own instincts . And he hath his reward . It needs not to bid " Renowned Chaucer lie a thought more nigh To rare Beaumond , and learned Beaumond lie A little nearer Spenser " ; - for there is no ...
... things , and to trust ourselves to our own instincts . And he hath his reward . It needs not to bid " Renowned Chaucer lie a thought more nigh To rare Beaumond , and learned Beaumond lie A little nearer Spenser " ; - for there is no ...
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Página 187 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The child is father of the man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Página 203 - Seven in all," she said, And wondering looked at me. " And where are they ? I pray you tell/ She answered, " Seven are we; And two of us at Conway dwell, And two arc gone to sea; " Two of us in the churchyard lie, My sister and my brother; And, in the churchyard cottage, I Dwell near them with my mother.
Página 274 - Came near, and nearer still. In one of those sweet dreams I slept, Kind Nature's gentlest boon! And all the while my eyes I kept On the descending moon.
Página 343 - Performed all kinds of labour for his sheep, And for the land, his small inheritance. And to that hollow dell from time to time Did he repair, to build the fold of which His flock had need.
Página 273 - Strange fits of passion have I known: And I will dare to tell, But in the Lover's ear alone, What once to me befell. When she I loved looked every day Fresh as a rose in June, I to her cottage bent my way, Beneath an evening-moon.
Página 350 - He was his comfort and his daily hope. While in this sort the simple household lived From day to day, to Michael's ear there came Distressful tidings. Long before the time Of which I speak, the Shepherd had been bound In surety for his brother's son, a man Of an industrious life, and ample means...
Página 344 - And grossly that man errs who should suppose That the green valleys, and the streams and rocks, Were things indifferent to the shepherd's thoughts.
Página 355 - Even to the utmost I have been to thee A kind and a good Father: and herein I but repay a gift which I myself Received at others' hands ; for, though now old Beyond the common life of man, I still Remember them who loved me in my youth. Both of them sleep together: here they lived, As all their Forefathers had done; and when At length their time was come, they were not loth To give their bodies to the family mould.
Página 67 - To break my dream the vessel reached its bound : And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined, and wanted food.
Página 202 - ... -A SIMPLE Child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death?