Studies in Poetry and PhilosophyEdmonston and Douglas, 1872 - 399 pages |
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... church and the lake . The poet's stay here was darkened by the loss of two of his little children , a girl and a boy , who were laid side by side in the same grave , hard by in Grasmere churchyard . A small blue stone preserves the fol ...
... church and the lake . The poet's stay here was darkened by the loss of two of his little children , a girl and a boy , who were laid side by side in the same grave , hard by in Grasmere churchyard . A small blue stone preserves the fol ...
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... Church- yard . On the characters who form the chief speakers in the poem , the Pedlar or Wanderer , the Solitary , and the Pastor , I cannot now dwell . Those who wish to see from what materials Wordsworth framed them , will find some ...
... Church- yard . On the characters who form the chief speakers in the poem , the Pedlar or Wanderer , the Solitary , and the Pastor , I cannot now dwell . Those who wish to see from what materials Wordsworth framed them , will find some ...
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... church of Rydal . There , Sunday by Sunday , he was seated , his head inclining forwards , and the long silver white hair like a crown of glory on either side of the broad majestic brow . Towards the close of 1847 , the household at ...
... church of Rydal . There , Sunday by Sunday , he was seated , his head inclining forwards , and the long silver white hair like a crown of glory on either side of the broad majestic brow . Towards the close of 1847 , the household at ...
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... . Presently one Frend , a Fellow of Jesus College , being accused of sedition , of defama- tion of the Church of England , and of holding Uni- tarian doctrines , was tried by the authorities , con- SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE . 123.
... . Presently one Frend , a Fellow of Jesus College , being accused of sedition , of defama- tion of the Church of England , and of holding Uni- tarian doctrines , was tried by the authorities , con- SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE . 123.
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... Church and State - not their alliance , but their separation ; on the spirit of the world and the spirit of Christianity -not as the same , but as opposed to one another . He talked of those who had inscribed the Cross of Christ on ...
... Church and State - not their alliance , but their separation ; on the spirit of the world and the spirit of Christianity -not as the same , but as opposed to one another . He talked of those who had inscribed the Cross of Christ on ...
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Page 57 - Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
Page 64 - All things that love the sun are out of doors; The sky rejoices in the morning's birth ; The grass is bright with rain-drops; — on the moors The hare is running races in her mirth ; And with her feet she from the plashy earth Raises a mist, that, glittering in the sun, Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.
Page 317 - How could communities Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place ? Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark, what discord follows ! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy...
Page 46 - A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel 13 light. XV.— I WANDERED LONELY. 1804. I WANDERED lonely as a cloud...
Page 360 - This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them : and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Page 177 - My shaping spirit of Imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan; Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Page 179 - Our observation employed either about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge from whence all the ideas we have or can naturally have do spring.
Page 54 - I doubt not that you will share with me an invincible confidence that my writings (and among them these little poems) will co-operate with the benign tendencies in human nature and society, wherever found ; and that they will, in their degree, be efficacious in making men wiser, better, and happier.
Page 98 - So still an image of tranquillity, So calm and still, .and looked so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which filled my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief That passing shows of Being leave behind, Appeared an idle dream, that could not live Where meditation was. I turned away, And walked along my road in happiness.
Page 38 - Thy memory be as a dwelling-place For all sweet sounds and harmonies ; oh ! then, If solitude, or fear, or pain, or grief, Should be thy portion...