The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: With a Memoir, Volume 5Little, Brown and Company, 1865 |
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... metre seem to lay claim to by pre- scription . I have wished to keep the Reader in the company of flesh and blood , persuaded that by so doing I shall interest him . Others who pursue a different track will interest him likewise ; I do ...
... metre seem to lay claim to by pre- scription . I have wished to keep the Reader in the company of flesh and blood , persuaded that by so doing I shall interest him . Others who pursue a different track will interest him likewise ; I do ...
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... metre , does not differ from that of prose , there is a numerous class of critics , who , when they stumble upon these prosaisms , as they call them , imagine that they have made a notable discovery , and exult over the Poet as over a ...
... metre , does not differ from that of prose , there is a numerous class of critics , who , when they stumble upon these prosaisms , as they call them , imagine that they have made a notable discovery , and exult over the Poet as over a ...
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... metre be super- added thereto , I believe that a dissimilitude will be produced altogether sufficient for the ... Metre ; nor is this , in truth , a strict antithesis , because lines and passages of metre so naturally occur in writing ...
... metre be super- added thereto , I believe that a dissimilitude will be produced altogether sufficient for the ... Metre ; nor is this , in truth , a strict antithesis , because lines and passages of metre so naturally occur in writing ...
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... metre , it is expected will employ a particular language . It is not , then , in the dramatic parts of compo- sition that we look for this distinction of lan- guage ; but still it may be proper and necessary where the Poet speaks to us ...
... metre , it is expected will employ a particular language . It is not , then , in the dramatic parts of compo- sition that we look for this distinction of lan- guage ; but still it may be proper and necessary where the Poet speaks to us ...
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... metre ; for , as may be proper to remind the Reader , the dis- it tinction of metre is regular and uniform , and not APPENDIX , PREFACES , ETC. 213.
... metre ; for , as may be proper to remind the Reader , the dis- it tinction of metre is regular and uniform , and not APPENDIX , PREFACES , ETC. 213.
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Page 178 - Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call Ye to each other make; I see The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee; My heart is at your festival, My head hath its coronal, The fulness of your bliss, I feel — I feel it all.
Page 180 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Page 179 - I have looked upon, Both of them speak of something that is gone: The Pansy at my feet Doth the same tale repeat: Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream?
Page 178 - The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose, The Moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare, Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair ; The sunshine is a glorious birth ; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Page 183 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 219 - ... the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.
Page 289 - 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.
Page 178 - As to the tabor's sound, To me alone there came a thought of grief: A timely utterance gave that thought relief, And I again am strong. The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep,— No more shall grief of mine the season wrong : I hear the echoes through the mountains throng, The winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay ; Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity...
Page 194 - Accordingly, such a language, arising out of repeated experience and regular feelings, is a more permanent, and a far more philosophical language, than that which is frequently substituted for it by Poets...
Page 307 - Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man ? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me...