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... Wordsworth , one day , made his very hairs bristle , By going and changing his harp for a whistle . ( 17 ) These heroes , however , long used to attack , Were not by contempt to be so driven back , But follow'd the God up , and shifting ...
... Wordsworth , one day , made his very hairs bristle , By going and changing his harp for a whistle . ( 17 ) These heroes , however , long used to attack , Were not by contempt to be so driven back , But follow'd the God up , and shifting ...
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... Wordsworth , his cheeks in a glow , ( For he felt he God in him , ) made symptoms to go , When Apollo , in pity , to screen him from sight , Threw round him a cloud that was purple and white , The same that of old us'd to wrap his own ...
... Wordsworth , his cheeks in a glow , ( For he felt he God in him , ) made symptoms to go , When Apollo , in pity , to screen him from sight , Threw round him a cloud that was purple and white , The same that of old us'd to wrap his own ...
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... Wordsworth , have both accepted offices under government , of such a na- ture , as absolutely ties up their independence ; Mr. Coleridge , in pamphlets and newspapers , has done his best to deserve likewise ; and yet they shall all tell ...
... Wordsworth , have both accepted offices under government , of such a na- ture , as absolutely ties up their independence ; Mr. Coleridge , in pamphlets and newspapers , has done his best to deserve likewise ; and yet they shall all tell ...
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... Wordsworth is not , it is not meant to insinuate that he is a better poet , but merely that he has not so abused the comparative little that was expected of him . He is no more to be com- pared with Mr. Wordsworth in real genius than ...
... Wordsworth is not , it is not meant to insinuate that he is a better poet , but merely that he has not so abused the comparative little that was expected of him . He is no more to be com- pared with Mr. Wordsworth in real genius than ...
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... Wordsworth conceals from you , or in fact overcomes by the growth of his own mind , Mr. Southey leaves open and bald — a direct imi- tation , prominent with nothing but haths , ands , yeas , evens , and other fragments of old speech ...
... Wordsworth conceals from you , or in fact overcomes by the growth of his own mind , Mr. Southey leaves open and bald — a direct imi- tation , prominent with nothing but haths , ands , yeas , evens , and other fragments of old speech ...
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