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... feelings of strangeness and aukwardness : they will look round for poetry , and will be in- duced to inquire by what ... feeling of disappointment , and that I myself may be pro- tected from the most dishonourable accusation which can be ...
... feelings of strangeness and aukwardness : they will look round for poetry , and will be in- duced to inquire by what ... feeling of disappointment , and that I myself may be pro- tected from the most dishonourable accusation which can be ...
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... feelings co - exist in a state of greater simplicity , and , consequently , may be more accurately contemplated , and more forcibly communicated ; because the manners of rural life germinate from those elementary feel- ings ; and , from ...
... feelings co - exist in a state of greater simplicity , and , consequently , may be more accurately contemplated , and more forcibly communicated ; because the manners of rural life germinate from those elementary feel- ings ; and , from ...
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... feelings and notions in simple and unelaborated expressions . Accordingly , such a language , arising out of repeated experience and regular feelings , is a more permanent , and a far more philosophical language , than that which is ...
... feelings and notions in simple and unelaborated expressions . Accordingly , such a language , arising out of repeated experience and regular feelings , is a more permanent , and a far more philosophical language , than that which is ...
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... feelings , as that my descriptions of such objects as strongly excite those feelings , will be found to carry along with them a purpose . If in this opi- aion I am mistaken , I can have little right to the name of a Poet . For all good ...
... feelings , as that my descriptions of such objects as strongly excite those feelings , will be found to carry along with them a purpose . If in this opi- aion I am mistaken , I can have little right to the name of a Poet . For all good ...
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... feelings : but though this be true , Poems to which any value can be attached , were never produced on any variety ... feelings ; and , as by contemplating the relation of these general representatives to each other we discover what is ...
... feelings : but though this be true , Poems to which any value can be attached , were never produced on any variety ... feelings ; and , as by contemplating the relation of these general representatives to each other we discover what is ...
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Page 154 - Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot; O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea! About, about, in reel and rout, The death-fires danced at night: The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue, and white.
Page 174 - "But tell me, tell me! speak again, Thy soft response renewing — What makes that ship drive on so fast? What is the Ocean doing?" Second Voice: "Still as a slave before his lord, The Ocean hath no blast; His great bright eye most silently Up to the Moon is cast — If he may know which way to go ; For she guides him smooth or grim. See, brother, see! how graciously She looketh down on him.
Page 170 - Sometimes a-dropping from the sky I heard the sky-lark sing; sometimes all little birds that are, how they seemed to fill the sea and air with their sweet jargoning! And now 'twas like all instruments, now like a lonely flute; and now it is an angel's song, that makes the heavens be mute.
Page 198 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; '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 judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is...
Page 193 - Is lightened — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on — Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Page 2 - The eye — it cannot choose but see ; We cannot bid the ear be still; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against or with our will. 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 146 - Yet he cannot choose but hear ! And thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed Mariner.
Page viii - The language too of these men is adopted (purified indeed from what appear to be its real defects, from all lasting and rational causes of dislike or disgust) because such men hourly communicate with the best objects from which the best part of language is originally derived...
Page 195 - That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur ; other gifts Have followed, for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompence. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.
Page 134 - The music and the doleful tale, The rich and balmy eve ; And hopes, and fears that kindle hope, An undistinguishable throng ; And gentle wishes long subdued, Subdued and...