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... employs only in submis- sion to necessity , and never for a continuance of time ; as its exercise supposes all the higher qualities of the mind to be passive , and in a state of subjection to external objects , much in the viii PREFACE .
... employs only in submis- sion to necessity , and never for a continuance of time ; as its exercise supposes all the higher qualities of the mind to be passive , and in a state of subjection to external objects , much in the viii PREFACE .
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... Imagination the works of Shake- spear are an inexhaustible source . " I tax not you , ye Elements , with unkindness , I never gave you Kingdoms , called you Daughters . " And if , bearing in mind the many Poets distin- XXX PREFACE .
... Imagination the works of Shake- spear are an inexhaustible source . " I tax not you , ye Elements , with unkindness , I never gave you Kingdoms , called you Daughters . " And if , bearing in mind the many Poets distin- XXX PREFACE .
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... never a Scholar in England knows . He will suddenly s'op in a cunning nook , And rings a sharp larum ; -but if you should look There's nothing to see but a cushion of snow Round as a pillow , and whiter than milk , And softer than if it ...
... never a Scholar in England knows . He will suddenly s'op in a cunning nook , And rings a sharp larum ; -but if you should look There's nothing to see but a cushion of snow Round as a pillow , and whiter than milk , And softer than if it ...
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... face of Lucy Gray Will never more be seen . To - night will be a stormy night- You to the Town must go ; And take a lantern , Child , to light Your mother through the snow . " " That , Father ! will I gladly do ; 14 Lucy Gray 1800.
... face of Lucy Gray Will never more be seen . To - night will be a stormy night- You to the Town must go ; And take a lantern , Child , to light Your mother through the snow . " " That , Father ! will I gladly do ; 14 Lucy Gray 1800.
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... ; And many a hill did Lucy climb ; But never reached the Town . The wretched Parents all that night Went shouting far and wide ; But there was neither sound nor sight To serve them for a guide . At day - break on a hill they stood That 15.
... ; And many a hill did Lucy climb ; But never reached the Town . The wretched Parents all that night Went shouting far and wide ; But there was neither sound nor sight To serve them for a guide . At day - break on a hill they stood That 15.
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Page 313 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, " A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. " Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Page 24 - Twelve steps or more from my mother's door, And they are side by side.
Page 130 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Page 299 - Thou bringest unto me a tale Of visionary hours. Thrice welcome, darling of the Spring ! Even yet thou art to me No bird, but an invisible thing, A voice, a mystery...
Page 131 - I TRAVELLED among unknown men, In 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.
Page 310 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Page 47 - Upon the glassy plain; and oftentimes, When we had given our bodies to the wind, And all the shadowy banks on either side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me — even as if the earth had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round!
Page 330 - Green pastures she views in the midst of the dale, Down which she so often has tripped with her pail ; And a single small cottage, a nest like a dove's, The one only Dwelling on earth that she loves.
Page 269 - Joyous as morning Thou art laughing and scorning ; Thou hast a nest for thy love and thy rest, And, though little troubled with sloth, Drunken Lark ! thou wouldst be loth To be such a traveller as I. Happy, happy Liver, With a soul as strong as a mountain river Pouring out praise to the Almighty Giver...
Page 343 - The appropriate business of poetry, (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent as pure science,) her appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear ; not as they exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses and to the passions.