A Selection from the Works of William Wordsworth, Poet LaureateEdward Moxon & Company, 1865 - 279 páginas |
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... Children are fascinated and haunted with vague temptations , when standing on the frontiers of such a foreign land , and ... child , and separated from the sister who became afterwards so much to him , the " stiff , moody , and violent ...
... Children are fascinated and haunted with vague temptations , when standing on the frontiers of such a foreign land , and ... child , and separated from the sister who became afterwards so much to him , the " stiff , moody , and violent ...
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... child of genius : he exhi- bits in himself , if his life be prolonged through all its stages , a kind of miniature repetition of man's gradual development . The soul which , as a child , Wordsworth had vaguely transferred from himself ...
... child of genius : he exhi- bits in himself , if his life be prolonged through all its stages , a kind of miniature repetition of man's gradual development . The soul which , as a child , Wordsworth had vaguely transferred from himself ...
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... children , it is stated , by the injustice of Sir John Lowther , created Earl of Lons- dale , during whose lifetime ( he died in 1802 ) , no redress could be obtained . But at this juncture ( 1795 ) , the opportune legacy of £ 900 from ...
... children , it is stated , by the injustice of Sir John Lowther , created Earl of Lons- dale , during whose lifetime ( he died in 1802 ) , no redress could be obtained . But at this juncture ( 1795 ) , the opportune legacy of £ 900 from ...
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... child of worldly grandeur , the thought of himself did not take the lead in his enjoyments ; he was , when he ought to be , lowly minded , and had human feeling ; he had a true relish of simplicity , and therefore stood the best chance ...
... child of worldly grandeur , the thought of himself did not take the lead in his enjoyments ; he was , when he ought to be , lowly minded , and had human feeling ; he had a true relish of simplicity , and therefore stood the best chance ...
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... children , amongst whom the death of one , Dora , was the single great sorrow of his age ( 1847 ) ; the publication of some miscellaneous poems , founded in part upon his journeys ; " honour and troops of friends , " with the assured ...
... children , amongst whom the death of one , Dora , was the single great sorrow of his age ( 1847 ) ; the publication of some miscellaneous poems , founded in part upon his journeys ; " honour and troops of friends , " with the assured ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
art thou beauty behold beneath blessed bliss bower breath bright brook BROUGHAM CASTLE Busk calm cheerful Child church-yard clouds Cockermouth dear delight dost doth dream dwell earth Ennerdale fair Fancy fear feel fields flowers gaze glad glory gone Grasmere grave green greenwood tree groves happy Happy day hath heard heart heaven heroic arts hills hope hour human human weight lake Leonard light live lofty lonely look LORD CLIFFORD mind morning mortal mountains mourned murmur Nature never night o'er ODE TO DUTY passed pensive pleasure Priest quiet random seed rills rocks round Ruth seemed shade Shepherd side sight silent sing slaughtered Lord sleep song sorrow soul spirit stars stone stream sweet thee thine things thou art thought Trajan trees Twill vale voice wander waters wild wild Hunt wind woods Wordsworth Yarrow Youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 1 - SHE was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay.
Página 52 - It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen!
Página 215 - Among the farthest Hebrides. Will no one tell me what she sings?— Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of today? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again?
Página 276 - Thou little child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife ? Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life...
Página 76 - Of aspect more Sublime ; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened : — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on. — Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the...
Página 3 - Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own.
Página 6 - A SLUMBER did my spirit seal ; •^*- I had no human fears : She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force ; She neither hears nor sees ; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees.
Página 9 - Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind — But how could I forget thee ? Through what power, Even for the least division of an hour...
Página 6 - Nor will I quit thy shore A second time; for still I seem To love thee more and more.
Página 167 - WHEN I have borne in memory what has tamed Great Nations, how ennobling thoughts depart When men change swords for ledgers, and desert The student's bower for gold...