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... means cheering , Wordsworth and his friend man- aged , after warding off the blows of the cudgel , to force their way into the house , and by reasoning with the surly landlord , and appealing to his better feelings , induced him to ...
... means cheering , Wordsworth and his friend man- aged , after warding off the blows of the cudgel , to force their way into the house , and by reasoning with the surly landlord , and appealing to his better feelings , induced him to ...
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... means will be adopted not only to have the rock removed to a place of safety , but also to preserve it from further mutilation . Although these initials have withstood the storms and blasts of more than four score winters , they are yet ...
... means will be adopted not only to have the rock removed to a place of safety , but also to preserve it from further mutilation . Although these initials have withstood the storms and blasts of more than four score winters , they are yet ...
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... him such a master , his pen , even when portraying his most cherished friends , seems to be slightly touched with an envious venom . That Mrs. Wordsworth's intellect was of no mean order there 100 DOROTHY WORDSWORTH .
... him such a master , his pen , even when portraying his most cherished friends , seems to be slightly touched with an envious venom . That Mrs. Wordsworth's intellect was of no mean order there 100 DOROTHY WORDSWORTH .
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Edmund Lee. That Mrs. Wordsworth's intellect was of no mean order there are in her life abundant traces . The dignified repose and simplicity of her manner , doubtless , formed a striking contrast to that of the impassioned and ardent ...
Edmund Lee. That Mrs. Wordsworth's intellect was of no mean order there are in her life abundant traces . The dignified repose and simplicity of her manner , doubtless , formed a striking contrast to that of the impassioned and ardent ...
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... means remarkable for comfort , to mention that she wrote on the same window - ledge on which her brother had written to her two years before ; but it reveals a loving heart . On the second day of their journey we find the following ...
... means remarkable for comfort , to mention that she wrote on the same window - ledge on which her brother had written to her two years before ; but it reveals a loving heart . On the second day of their journey we find the following ...
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Page 97 - SHE was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay.
Page 101 - I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. " Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay ; Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
Page 50 - tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash...
Page 50 - My dear, dear Friend; and in thy voice I catch The language of my former heart, and read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy wild eyes.
Page 119 - And seemliness complete, that sways Thy courtesies, about thee plays ; With no restraint, but such as springs From quick and eager visitings Of thoughts, that lie beyond the reach Of thy few words of English speech : A bondage sweetly brooked, a strife That gives thy gestures grace and life ! So have I, not unmoved in mind, Seen birds of tempest-loving kind Thus beating up against the wind.
Page 77 - I AM not One who much or oft delight To season my fireside with personal talk, — Of friends, who live within an easy walk, Or neighbours, daily, weekly, in my sight : And, for my chance-acquaintance, ladies bright, Sons, mothers, maidens withering on the stalk, These all wear out of me, like Forms, with chalk Painted on rich men's floors, for one feast-night. Better than such discourse doth silence long, Long, barren silence...
Page 118 - And these grey rocks; that household lawn; Those trees, a veil just half withdrawn; This fall of water that doth make A murmur near the silent lake...
Page 160 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers; Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times.
Page 48 - IT is the first mild day of March : Each minute sweeter than before The redbreast sings from the tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense, of joy to yield To the bare trees, and mountains bare, And grass in the green Held.
Page 45 - Wordsworth himself was from home, but his sister kept house, and set before us a frugal repast ; and we had free access to her brother's poems, the Lyrical Ballads, which were still in manuscript, or in the form of Sybilline Leaves.