A Selection from the Works of William Wordsworth, Poet LaureateEdward Moxon & Company, 1865 - 279 pages |
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... things without " taken by the early philosophers of Greece . True Being he felt only within his mind : except here , nothing could be felt as veritably existing : all beyond was a mysterious vision , the reality of which lay in the ...
... things without " taken by the early philosophers of Greece . True Being he felt only within his mind : except here , nothing could be felt as veritably existing : all beyond was a mysterious vision , the reality of which lay in the ...
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... often , perhaps too often , and in a mechanical spirit , used in reference to " the sum of things , " as Lucretius called Nature , and Wordsworth , especially in his later years , has used that name with Christian PREFACE vii.
... often , perhaps too often , and in a mechanical spirit , used in reference to " the sum of things , " as Lucretius called Nature , and Wordsworth , especially in his later years , has used that name with Christian PREFACE vii.
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... thing , when expressed as the Omni- presence of the Deity . Wordsworth has thrown his heart so fully and freely into his writings , that it is impossible to pass over the peculiar tone of his religious philosophy in silence : although ...
... thing , when expressed as the Omni- presence of the Deity . Wordsworth has thrown his heart so fully and freely into his writings , that it is impossible to pass over the peculiar tone of his religious philosophy in silence : although ...
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... things , or who regards them as simple subjects for scientific investigation . He will study man more ( especially man , leading a simple and unsophisticated life ) as the highest effort or mani- festation of nature . This two - fold ...
... things , or who regards them as simple subjects for scientific investigation . He will study man more ( especially man , leading a simple and unsophisticated life ) as the highest effort or mani- festation of nature . This two - fold ...
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... " Christian Year , " say that Wordsworth's work was to raise us to holier things . " But Wordsworth , like his fellows in immortal verse , may not be compressed within the bounds of a definition . It can be only through the XX PREFACE.
... " Christian Year , " say that Wordsworth's work was to raise us to holier things . " But Wordsworth , like his fellows in immortal verse , may not be compressed within the bounds of a definition . It can be only through the XX PREFACE.
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