A Selection from the Works of William WordsworthEdward Mosean & Company, 1865 - 279 pages |
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... friends among the moderate republicans ) , Wordsworth left Paris before the massacre : but some part of the passionate impulse of the time had passed into him , as it passed into all sensitive minds , and he returned home with a strong ...
... friends among the moderate republicans ) , Wordsworth left Paris before the massacre : but some part of the passionate impulse of the time had passed into him , as it passed into all sensitive minds , and he returned home with a strong ...
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... friend named Calvert gave Wordsworth an indepen- dence which could , however , only have been wrung by one devoted to " plain living and high thinking , " from the interest of so small a sum . Meanwhile another and a greater blessing ...
... friend named Calvert gave Wordsworth an indepen- dence which could , however , only have been wrung by one devoted to " plain living and high thinking , " from the interest of so small a sum . Meanwhile another and a greater blessing ...
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... friendship with Sir George Beaumont , Charles Lamb , Southey , and Walter Scott , and in 1802 entered upon a long marriage of unbroken happiness with Mary Hutchinson , a young lady whom he had known from childhood . Of all the powerful ...
... friendship with Sir George Beaumont , Charles Lamb , Southey , and Walter Scott , and in 1802 entered upon a long marriage of unbroken happiness with Mary Hutchinson , a young lady whom he had known from childhood . Of all the powerful ...
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... he most desired for himself , " says another witness , " was love . " He felt for his friends and family , neighbours and dependents , that intense . tenderness which his poetry expresses towards what , by a xviii PREFACE.
... he most desired for himself , " says another witness , " was love . " He felt for his friends and family , neighbours and dependents , that intense . tenderness which his poetry expresses towards what , by a xviii PREFACE.
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... friends , " with the assured blessings of home , such euthanasia , in a word , as human life admits of : these , and similar circumstances , accompanied his later days to a calm and Christian death - bed ( April 23 , 1850 ) . He had ...
... friends , " with the assured blessings of home , such euthanasia , in a word , as human life admits of : these , and similar circumstances , accompanied his later days to a calm and Christian death - bed ( April 23 , 1850 ) . He had ...
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