Poems in 2 Vols., Reprinted Original Ed. of 1807 Ed. with Note on the Wordsworthian Sonnet by Thos. Hutchinson, Volume 2David Nutt, 1807 |
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Page 195
... Coleridge detected in this poem the vice of " mental bombast , " i.e. , thoughts and images too great for the subject . Wordsworth expresses his ruth at the indolence of the gipsies in language which " would have been rather above than ...
... Coleridge detected in this poem the vice of " mental bombast , " i.e. , thoughts and images too great for the subject . Wordsworth expresses his ruth at the indolence of the gipsies in language which " would have been rather above than ...
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... Coleridge has it in Frost at Midnight ( 1798 ) ; Wordsworth employs it in a can- celled passage of Michael ( see Knight , Life of W. W. , i . , p . 388 ) as well as here ; and Southey ( in a letter quoted in Dowden's Life of him , page ...
... Coleridge has it in Frost at Midnight ( 1798 ) ; Wordsworth employs it in a can- celled passage of Michael ( see Knight , Life of W. W. , i . , p . 388 ) as well as here ; and Southey ( in a letter quoted in Dowden's Life of him , page ...
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... W. W. , vol . ii . , pp . 107-8 ) . The one noteworthy change in this poem- the substitution in ed . 1815 of a turtle - shell for the 66 harmless , necessary " household tub - was made by the advice of Coleridge , who in 1808 or 198.
... W. W. , vol . ii . , pp . 107-8 ) . The one noteworthy change in this poem- the substitution in ed . 1815 of a turtle - shell for the 66 harmless , necessary " household tub - was made by the advice of Coleridge , who in 1808 or 198.
Page 199
William Wordsworth. by the advice of Coleridge , who in 1808 or 1809 wrote in his pocket - book ( An . Poeta , p . 207 ) : " I almost fear that the alteration would excite surprise and uneasy contempt in Verbidigno's [ Wordsworth's ] ...
William Wordsworth. by the advice of Coleridge , who in 1808 or 1809 wrote in his pocket - book ( An . Poeta , p . 207 ) : " I almost fear that the alteration would excite surprise and uneasy contempt in Verbidigno's [ Wordsworth's ] ...
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... etc. The opening and the close of stanza v . ( “ Tis gone -forgotten , " etc. ) were censured by Coleridge as instances of " inconstancy or disharmony in style , ' i.e. , the sudden transition from a felicitous poetic style 213.
... etc. The opening and the close of stanza v . ( “ Tis gone -forgotten , " etc. ) were censured by Coleridge as instances of " inconstancy or disharmony in style , ' i.e. , the sudden transition from a felicitous poetic style 213.
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Page 148 - 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 149 - 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...
Page 158 - The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality ; Another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Page 150 - But there's a Tree, of many, one, A single Field which 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?
Page 122 - Blessings be with them — and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares—- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be numbered among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days.
Page 155 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence...
Page 167 - And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places : thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations ; and thou shalt be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Page 152 - mid work of his own hand he lies, Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses, With light upon him from his father's eyes...
Page 157 - What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower...
Page 156 - 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.