A Selection from the Works of William Wordsworth, Poet LaureateEdward Moxon & Company, 1865 - 279 pages |
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... seemed possible to unite Royalty with Liberty . Returning next year , he found a nation distracted between civil war and foreign invasion , -between those ready to die to restore a rejected past , and those ready to die for the ...
... seemed possible to unite Royalty with Liberty . Returning next year , he found a nation distracted between civil war and foreign invasion , -between those ready to die to restore a rejected past , and those ready to die for the ...
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... seemed to represent . But it was inevitable or natural that one who had shared keenly in the noble enthusiasms of 1790 , had mourned bitterly over the excesses of 1792 , and had hailed the fall of the extreme revolutionary section as ...
... seemed to represent . But it was inevitable or natural that one who had shared keenly in the noble enthusiasms of 1790 , had mourned bitterly over the excesses of 1792 , and had hailed the fall of the extreme revolutionary section as ...
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... 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 . 1799 VII I TRAVELLED among ...
... 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 . 1799 VII I TRAVELLED among ...
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... of Even ; And if the breath of some to no caress Invited , forth they peeped so fair to view , All kinds alike seemed favourites of Heaven . XI I WANDERED lonely as a cloud That floats on ΙΟ A SELECTION FROM THE WORKS OF FLOWERS.
... of Even ; And if the breath of some to no caress Invited , forth they peeped so fair to view , All kinds alike seemed favourites of Heaven . XI I WANDERED lonely as a cloud That floats on ΙΟ A SELECTION FROM THE WORKS OF FLOWERS.
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... seemed of slight and scorn ; My True - love sighed for sorrow ; And looked me in the face , to think I thus could speak of Yarrow ! " Oh ! green , " said I , " are Yarrow's holms , And sweet is Yarrow flowing ! Fair hangs the apple frae ...
... seemed of slight and scorn ; My True - love sighed for sorrow ; And looked me in the face , to think I thus could speak of Yarrow ! " Oh ! green , " said I , " are Yarrow's holms , And sweet is Yarrow flowing ! Fair hangs the apple frae ...
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