The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 2Edward Moxon, 1836 - English poetry |
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... Passions trod ! O Thou , through whom the temple rings with praises , And blackening clouds in thunder speak of God , Betray not by the cozenage of sense Thy votaries , wooingly resigned To a voluptuous influence That taints the purer ...
... Passions trod ! O Thou , through whom the temple rings with praises , And blackening clouds in thunder speak of God , Betray not by the cozenage of sense Thy votaries , wooingly resigned To a voluptuous influence That taints the purer ...
Page 228
... passion climb , When Music deigned within this grosser sphere Her subtle essence to enfold , And voice and shell drew forth a tear Softer than Nature's self could mould . Yet strenuous was the infant Age : Art , daring because souls ...
... passion climb , When Music deigned within this grosser sphere Her subtle essence to enfold , And voice and shell drew forth a tear Softer than Nature's self could mould . Yet strenuous was the infant Age : Art , daring because souls ...
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... passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity , are less under restraint , and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because in that condition of life our elementary feelings co - exist in a ...
... passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity , are less under restraint , and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because in that condition of life our elementary feelings co - exist in a ...
Page 307
... passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature . The language , too , of these men has been adopted ( purified indeed from what appear to be its real defects , from all lasting and rational causes of ...
... passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature . The language , too , of these men has been adopted ( purified indeed from what appear to be its real defects , from all lasting and rational causes of ...
Page 309
... passion through many of its more subtile windings , as in the poems of the IDIOT BOY and the one beginning , " Her eyes are wild , " & c .; by accompanying the last struggles of a human being , at the approach of death , cleaving in ...
... passion through many of its more subtile windings , as in the poems of the IDIOT BOY and the one beginning , " Her eyes are wild , " & c .; by accompanying the last struggles of a human being , at the approach of death , cleaving in ...
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