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... Wordsworth and I were neigh- bors , ' our conversation 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 ...
... Wordsworth and I were neigh- bors , ' our conversation 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 ...
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... Wordsworth's industry had proved so much more successful , and the number of his poems so much greater , that my compositions , instead of forming a balance , appeared rather an interpolation of heterogeneous matter . Mr. Wordsworth ...
... Wordsworth's industry had proved so much more successful , and the number of his poems so much greater , that my compositions , instead of forming a balance , appeared rather an interpolation of heterogeneous matter . Mr. Wordsworth ...
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... Wordsworth , Southey , and Coleridge , should be known and reperused in the present day ; —not as reflecting any special disgrace on the writers ( for as to them , the matter and tone of these essays only showed that the critics had not ...
... Wordsworth , Southey , and Coleridge , should be known and reperused in the present day ; —not as reflecting any special disgrace on the writers ( for as to them , the matter and tone of these essays only showed that the critics had not ...
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... Wordsworth himself live to see that revolution legitimated which he and his compeers , Coleridge and Southey , in ... Wordsworth's - the hither part , out of sight of Chaucer and Spenser and the old English Poets in general , could never ...
... Wordsworth himself live to see that revolution legitimated which he and his compeers , Coleridge and Southey , in ... Wordsworth's - the hither part , out of sight of Chaucer and Spenser and the old English Poets in general , could never ...
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... Wordsworth . The same kind of attack has been repeated of late years with a far more cunning malice and amusing ... Wordsworth's fame has never risen above the hori- zon . Not that every man of sense must needs bow down before it ; there ...
... Wordsworth . The same kind of attack has been repeated of late years with a far more cunning malice and amusing ... Wordsworth's fame has never risen above the hori- zon . Not that every man of sense must needs bow down before it ; there ...
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Page 588 - 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: truths that wake, To perish never...
Page 498 - By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 459 - No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
Page 587 - Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast: Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise...
Page 553 - Joyous as morning Thou art laughing and scorning ; Thou hast a nest for thy love and thy rest, And, though little troubled with sloth, Drunken Lark ! thou would'st be loth To be such a traveller as I. Happy, happy Liver, With a soul as strong as a mountain river Pouring out praise to the Almighty Giver...
Page 504 - In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire: The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire: These ears alas! for other notes repine; A different object do these eyes require; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire...
Page 457 - Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace...
Page 451 - What is poetry? — is so nearly the same question with, what is a poet? — that the answer to the one is involved in the solution of the other.
Page 443 - I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation...
Page 588 - Nor man nor boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy ! 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.