WordsworthE. Arnold, 1903 - 232 pages |
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Page 171 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free; The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration...
Page 73 - ... that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Page 111 - A SLUMBER did my spirit seal ; •^*- I had no human fears : She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force ; She neither hears nor sees ; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees.
Page 137 - Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
Page 166 - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised...
Page 131 - tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music ! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. And hark ! how blithe the throstle sings ! He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your Teacher.
Page 195 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife. Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind...
Page 88 - It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.
Page 49 - Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven ! — Oh ! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in Romance...
Page 109 - tis surely blind. But welcome fortitude, and patient cheer, And frequent sights of what is to be borne ! Such sights, or worse, as are before me here. — Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Wordsworth |
| Authors | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh |
| Publisher | E. Arnold, 1903 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 7 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 232 pages |
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