 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...  Dorothy Wordsworth: The Story of a Sister's Love - Page 53by Edmund Lee - 1886 - 214 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...He is not however fond of mere gossip, as may be gathered from the following very curious sonnet. " I am not one who much or oft delight To season my...personal talk Of friends, who live within an easy walk, Of neighbours, daily, weekly in my sight : And for my chance acquaintance, Ladies bright, Sons, mothers,... | |
 | Hints - 1843 - 344 pages
...discourse and animadversion. Wordsworth, in the first of four sonnets, devoted to this subject says, " I am not one who much or oft delight To season my...personal talk Of friends who live within an easy walk ; Of neighbours daily, weekly in my sight: Better than such discourse, doth silence long, Long barren... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1844 - 376 pages
...shape, however modified or disguised. Most warmly did she echo the sentiment of Mr Wordsworth — " I am not one who much or oft delight To season my...personal talk Of friends who live within an easy walk, Of neighbours, daily, weekly in my eight." The following passage from Madame de StaeTs Allemagne might,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...those witty rhymes About the crazy old church-clock, And the bewildered chimes. 1799. PERSONAL TALK. L I AM not One who much or oft delight To season my...neighbours, daily, weekly, in my sight : And, for my chance-acquaintance, ladies bright, Sons, mothers, maidens withering on the stalk, These all wear out... | |
 | Thomas Kerchever Arnold - Latin language - 1846 - 232 pages
...possim. h OBs. The verb after qui takes the person of ego, tu, &c. not of ' is,' or man, person. ' I am not one who much or oft delight To season my fireside with personal talk,' &c. Wordsworth. i 'O me miserum!' or ' rne miserum!' The interjections O, heu, proh! take the ace.... | |
 | Thomas Kerchever Arnold - Latin language - 1846 - 362 pages
...OBs. The verb after qui takes the person of ego, tu, 'fcc., not of ' w ' or man, person. ' I am net one who much or oft delight To season my fireside with personal talk,' &c. (Wordsworth.) Exercise 71. [Translate ' I am not one who think.'" 486. t'.] 487. We must take care... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1848 - 426 pages
...evidently be our duty to refrain from them, following the example set before us by our great moral poet: I am not one who much or oft delight To season my...easy walk, Or neighbours, daily, weekly, in my sight. But surely you would not have mixt conversation always settle into a discussion of abstract topics.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1851 - 750 pages
...that at last in fear I shrink, And leap at once from the delicious stream. xxxvm. PERSONAL TALK. I AH not One who much or oft delight To season my fireside...Neighbours, daily, weekly, in my sight : And, for my chance-acquaintance, Ladies bright, Sons, Mothers, Maidens withering on the stalk, These all wear out... | |
 | Clara Cameron (fict.name.) - 1851 - 882 pages
...of the heart, for mourning in retirement over the severance of nature's closest ties. CHAPTER XII. " I am not one who much, or oft delight To season my...personal talk Of friends who live within an easy walk, Of neighbours, daily, weekly, in my sight." WORDSWORTH. " Se alcuna, pare esser religiose fra voi,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...XXXVIII. PERSONAL TALK. I AM not One who much or ofl delight To season my fireside with personal tall;, l its wreaths, Mounting while earth her * MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, MMMV5 AT THE MOUTH Or THK DEKWE chance-acquaintance, Ladies bright, Sons, Mothers, Maidens withering on the stalk, These all wear out... | |
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