 | William Wordsworth - Sonnets, English - 1899 - 308 pages
...were composed while the sheets were going through the press. My admiration of some of the sonnets ot Milton first tempted me to write in that form. .The...and a man, I am under to our great fellowcountryman. RYDAL MOUNT, May list. 1838 vii MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS DEDICATION To HAPPY the feeling from the bosom... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 506 pages
...' advertisement ' to the Sonnets collected in one volume, Wordsworth says : ' My admiration of some of the Sonnets of Milton first tempted me to write...a man, I am under to our great fellow-countryman. — Rydal Mount, May 21st, 1838.' See also post, Chap, xxn., note on Milton's Sonnets ; and a passage... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...of Sonnets, the author said : " My admiration of some of the sonnets of Mihon, first tempted me lo RYDAL' MOUNT, May 21st, 1838." — HR] With chastened feelings would I pay The tribute due To him,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1851 - 750 pages
...stay ; [t In a brief advertisement to the Volume of Sonnet*, the author said : " My admiration of some of the sonnets of Milton, first tempted me to write...of one of the innumerable obligations, which, as a po«t and a man, I am under to our great fellow-countryman, RVDAL MOUNT, May Blst, 1838." — HR] With... | |
 | David M. Main - Sonnets, English - 1880 - 490 pages
...one I distinctly remember is " I grieved for Buonaparte," &c. One was never 1 * My admiration of some of the Sonnets of Milton first tempted me to write...Man. I am under to our great fellow-countryman.'— AJvtrtucmtnt to tht collated tditioit of tkt SONNETS, 1838. PACE written down ; the third, which was... | |
 | David M. Main - 1880 - 506 pages
..."&c. Onewasnever 1 ' My admiration of some of the Sonnets of Milton first tempted me to write in thai form. The fact is not mentioned from a notion that...a Man, I am under to our great fellow-countryman. — Ativtrtitemtnt to tkt colltcttd edition of tlu SONNETS, 1838. written down ; the third, which was... | |
 | David M. Main (ed) - 1881 - 496 pages
...one I distinctly remember is " I grieved for Buonaparte," &c. One was never 1 ' My admiration of some of the Sonnets of Milton first tempted me to write...it will be deemed of any importance by the reader, b1n merely as a public acknowledgment of one of the numerous obligations which, as a Poet and a Man,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1899 - 342 pages
...are added which were composed while the sheets were going through the press. My admiration of some of the sonnets of Milton first tempted me to write...and a man, I am under to our great fellowcountryman. RVDAL MOUNT, Mai/ l\tt, 1838 CONTENTS PACK THI AOTHOR'S PREFACE TO 'THE SONNETS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH... | |
 | Kurt Lienemann - Books and reading - 1908 - 276 pages
...Ebenso offen erkannte W auch im Advertisement zu seinem Separatsonettenband an: "My admiration of some of the sonnets of Milton first tempted me to write in that form." Damit stimmt auch die Eintragung in Dorothea's Tagebuch am 20. 5. 1801 überein: "William wrote two... | |
 | Alden Sampson - 1913 - 336 pages
...it took the kindred endowment of Wordsworth fully to perceive and appreciate: "My admiration of some of the Sonnets of Milton first tempted me to write in that form," he tells us.* "In the cottage, Town-end, Grasmere, one afternoon in 1801, my sister read to me the... | |
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My admiration of some of the Sonnets of Milton first tempted me to write in that form. The fact is not mentioned from a notion that it will be deemed of any importance by the reader, but merely as a public acknowledgment of one of the innumerable obligations... 
