Aesthetical and literaryE. Moxon, 1876 |
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... present , the opportunities of directly acquiring other than superficial knowledge have been most scanty ; for the writer has barely seen the person who is the subject of his tale ; nor did his avocations allow him to take the pains ...
... present , the opportunities of directly acquiring other than superficial knowledge have been most scanty ; for the writer has barely seen the person who is the subject of his tale ; nor did his avocations allow him to take the pains ...
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... present age and future generations , on the other ; and to strike a balance between them . - Such philosophy runs a risk of becoming extinct among us , if the coarse intrusions into the recesses , the gross breaches upon the sanctities ...
... present age and future generations , on the other ; and to strike a balance between them . - Such philosophy runs a risk of becoming extinct among us , if the coarse intrusions into the recesses , the gross breaches upon the sanctities ...
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... with more or less distinctness presents itself to view in almost every part of his earlier , and , in my estimation , his most valuable verses . This poetic fabric , dug out of the quarry of genuine 12 Of Literary Biography and Monuments .
... with more or less distinctness presents itself to view in almost every part of his earlier , and , in my estimation , his most valuable verses . This poetic fabric , dug out of the quarry of genuine 12 Of Literary Biography and Monuments .
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... present while the author is correcting the proof sheets , observes that Aristarchus is libelled by this application of his name , and advises that Zoilus ' should be substituted . The question lies between spite and presumption ; and it ...
... present while the author is correcting the proof sheets , observes that Aristarchus is libelled by this application of his name , and advises that Zoilus ' should be substituted . The question lies between spite and presumption ; and it ...
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... present state of things , the sense of our obligation to it may more satisfactorily be expressed by means pointing directly to the general benefit of literature . Trusting that these opinions of an individual will be candidly ...
... present state of things , the sense of our obligation to it may more satisfactorily be expressed by means pointing directly to the general benefit of literature . Trusting that these opinions of an individual will be candidly ...
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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...