Aesthetical and literaryE. Moxon, 1876 |
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... light , and brought forward in such order , that they shall explain their own laws , and leave the reader in as little uncertainty as the mysteries of our nature will allow , re- specting the spirit from which they derived their ...
... light , and brought forward in such order , that they shall explain their own laws , and leave the reader in as little uncertainty as the mysteries of our nature will allow , re- specting the spirit from which they derived their ...
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... light which such a discovery might throw upon Roman manners , there would be reasons to desire it : but I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of those illustrious persons with incongruous features , and to ...
... light which such a discovery might throw upon Roman manners , there would be reasons to desire it : but I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of those illustrious persons with incongruous features , and to ...
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... light the picture which he has drawn of the convivial exaltation of the rustic adventurer , Tam o'Shanter ? The poet fears not to tell the reader in the outset that his hero was a desperate and sottish drunkard , whose excesses were ...
... light the picture which he has drawn of the convivial exaltation of the rustic adventurer , Tam o'Shanter ? The poet fears not to tell the reader in the outset that his hero was a desperate and sottish drunkard , whose excesses were ...
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... light of love in our hearts is a satisfactory evidence that there is a body of worth in the minds of our friends or kindred , whence that light has proceeded . We shrink from the thought of placing their merits and defects to be weighed ...
... light of love in our hearts is a satisfactory evidence that there is a body of worth in the minds of our friends or kindred , whence that light has proceeded . We shrink from the thought of placing their merits and defects to be weighed ...
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... light of love , I have been affected by sensations akin to those which have risen in my mind while I have been standing by the side of a *(b) From the Author's мss The Country Churchyard, and critical Examina- tion of Ancient Epitaphs 41- ...
... light of love , I have been affected by sensations akin to those which have risen in my mind while I have been standing by the side of a *(b) From the Author's мss The Country Churchyard, and critical Examina- tion of Ancient Epitaphs 41- ...
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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...