A Selection from the Works of William WordsworthEdward Mosean & Company, 1865 - 279 pages |
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Page iv
... Wordsworth was born ( April 7 , 1770 ) at Cockermouth in Cumberland , on the verge of that beautiful land of mountain and lake which will be always associated with his memory , as it entered in no small degree into iv PREFACE.
... Wordsworth was born ( April 7 , 1770 ) at Cockermouth in Cumberland , on the verge of that beautiful land of mountain and lake which will be always associated with his memory , as it entered in no small degree into iv PREFACE.
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... land , and so was Wordsworth fascinated , so haunted . " The Derwent , " fairest of all rivers , " running near Cockermouth , seems to connect the little town with the chief of the Cumbrian lakes ; and between Penrith and Cockermouth ...
... land , and so was Wordsworth fascinated , so haunted . " The Derwent , " fairest of all rivers , " running near Cockermouth , seems to connect the little town with the chief of the Cumbrian lakes ; and between Penrith and Cockermouth ...
Page ix
... land , were not likely to render Wordsworth congenial as an undergraduate to Cambridge . Except in the " Prelude , " that University is almost absent from the verse of one whose own experiences , as with Goethe , almost exclusively form ...
... land , were not likely to render Wordsworth congenial as an undergraduate to Cambridge . Except in the " Prelude , " that University is almost absent from the verse of one whose own experiences , as with Goethe , almost exclusively form ...
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... land , The consecration , and the poet's dream : - 66 or take the phrase of his only distinguished follower in poetry , and , with the author of the " Christian Year , " say that Wordsworth's work was to raise us to holier things ...
... land , The consecration , and the poet's dream : - 66 or take the phrase of his only distinguished follower in poetry , and , with the author of the " Christian Year , " say that Wordsworth's work was to raise us to holier things ...
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... lands beyond the sea ; Nor , England ! did I know till then What love I bore to thee . ' Tis past , that melancholy dream ! Nor will I quit thy shore A second time ; for still I seem To love thee more and more . Among thy mountains did ...
... lands beyond the sea ; Nor , England ! did I know till then What love I bore to thee . ' Tis past , that melancholy dream ! Nor will I quit thy shore A second time ; for still I seem To love thee more and more . Among thy mountains did ...
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