Aesthetical and literaryE. Moxon, 1876 |
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... frequently thine own enemy , -unhappy favourite of genius , too often misguided , this is indeed to be crushed beneath the fur- row's weight ! ' Why , sir , do I write to you at this length , when all that I had to express in direct ...
... frequently thine own enemy , -unhappy favourite of genius , too often misguided , this is indeed to be crushed beneath the fur- row's weight ! ' Why , sir , do I write to you at this length , when all that I had to express in direct ...
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... frequent as his op- portunities . This reprobate sits down to his cups , while the storm is roaring , and heaven and earth are in confusion ; -the night is driven on by song and tumultuous noise - laughter and jest thicken as the ...
... frequent as his op- portunities . This reprobate sits down to his cups , while the storm is roaring , and heaven and earth are in confusion ; -the night is driven on by song and tumultuous noise - laughter and jest thicken as the ...
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... frequent breaches of self - respect , he was not negligent to maintain for them - the right of imparting solid instruction through the medium of unalloyed pleasure . You will have noticed that my observations have hitherto been confined ...
... frequent breaches of self - respect , he was not negligent to maintain for them - the right of imparting solid instruction through the medium of unalloyed pleasure . You will have noticed that my observations have hitherto been confined ...
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... frequently interred by the way - sides . I could here pause with pleasure , and invite the Reader to indulge with me in contemplation of the advantages which must have attended such a practice . We might ruminate upon the beauty which ...
... frequently interred by the way - sides . I could here pause with pleasure , and invite the Reader to indulge with me in contemplation of the advantages which must have attended such a practice . We might ruminate upon the beauty which ...
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... frequently , and in a greater degree , in those per- sons to whom duty has never been matter of laborious specula- tion , and who have no intimations of the power to act and to resist which is in them , till they are summoned to put it ...
... frequently , and in a greater degree , in those per- sons to whom duty has never been matter of laborious specula- tion , and who have no intimations of the power to act and to resist which is in them , till they are summoned to put it ...
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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...