William Wordsworth: A BiographyCash, 1856 - 508 pagine |
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Pagina 8
... frequent than wise . His young days were passed in various places , with his mother's relations at Penrith , or in his father's house at Cockermouth . He has perpetuated and memorialized most of the impressions and doings of those ...
... frequent than wise . His young days were passed in various places , with his mother's relations at Penrith , or in his father's house at Cockermouth . He has perpetuated and memorialized most of the impressions and doings of those ...
Pagina 39
... frequent intimations of the spirit that in its unrest , believed in the possibility of being raised up to execute the Heaven - sent command . Like the Greeks of old , Wordsworth does not appear to have had any very clear idea that the ...
... frequent intimations of the spirit that in its unrest , believed in the possibility of being raised up to execute the Heaven - sent command . Like the Greeks of old , Wordsworth does not appear to have had any very clear idea that the ...
Pagina 49
... frequent the porch all your days , nor ever to behold her ; the mind must be purged from earth's impurities , it must pass through trials and through mysteries like the Eleusinian of old , from hatred and scorn it must be purged , must ...
... frequent the porch all your days , nor ever to behold her ; the mind must be purged from earth's impurities , it must pass through trials and through mysteries like the Eleusinian of old , from hatred and scorn it must be purged , must ...
Pagina 57
... frequently we have a line or couplet sweet and full as any Wordsworth ut- tered , and presenting as bright a picture to the imagi- nation as when he paints to us a scene " Where the old woods worship God , Where his pencil paints the ...
... frequently we have a line or couplet sweet and full as any Wordsworth ut- tered , and presenting as bright a picture to the imagi- nation as when he paints to us a scene " Where the old woods worship God , Where his pencil paints the ...
Pagina 61
... frequently to him - what is to be done ? how are you going through life . ? The newspaper idea was determined on , and our juvenile poet wrote to a friend in London expressing his views and feelings ; but he wrote from Penrith , where ...
... frequently to him - what is to be done ? how are you going through life . ? The newspaper idea was determined on , and our juvenile poet wrote to a friend in London expressing his views and feelings ; but he wrote from Penrith , where ...
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Pagina 379 - Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Pagina 209 - Dee." They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel crawling foam, The cruel hungry foam, To her grave beside the sea: But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle home Across the sands of Dee!
Pagina 377 - Milton ! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Pagina 377 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Pagina 176 - The appearance, instantaneously disclosed, Was of a mighty city — boldly say A wilderness of building, sinking far And self-withdrawn into a boundless depth, Far sinking into splendour — without end ! Fabric it seemed of diamond and of gold, With alabaster domes, and silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace, high Uplifted ; here, serene pavilions bright, In avenues disposed ; there, towers begirt With battlements...
Pagina 16 - So through the darkness and the cold we flew, and not a voice was idle: with the din smitten, the precipices rang aloud; the leafless trees and every icy crag tinkled like iron; while far distant hills into the tumult sent an alien sound of melancholy not unnoticed, while the stars eastward were sparkling clear, and in the west the orange sky of evening died away.
Pagina 17 - When we had given our bodies to the wind, And all the shadowy banks on either side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels. Stopped short; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me — even as if the earth had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round!
Pagina 340 - ... During the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination.
Pagina 359 - Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Pagina 211 - And then an open field they crossed : The marks were still the same; They tracked them on, nor ever lost; And to the bridge they came. They followed from the snowy bank Those footmarks, one by one, Into the middle of the plank; And further there were none ! — Yet some maintain that to this day She is a living child ; That you may see sweet Lucy Gray Upon the lonesome wild. O'er rough and smooth she trips along, And never looks behind; And sings a solitary song That whistles in the wind.