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... beautiful descriptive work on Greece , can be supposed to doubt that refined scholarship and elegant taste qualified him , to some extent , for the delicate and interesting office of writing the Memoir of his distinguished relative ...
... beautiful descriptive work on Greece , can be supposed to doubt that refined scholarship and elegant taste qualified him , to some extent , for the delicate and interesting office of writing the Memoir of his distinguished relative ...
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... beautiful scenery of the English Lakes . Wordsworth was an advocate for the theory that an intellectual and moral education goes on in the heart of early infancy ; and it may well be supposed that , from the day when he first opened his ...
... beautiful scenery of the English Lakes . Wordsworth was an advocate for the theory that an intellectual and moral education goes on in the heart of early infancy ; and it may well be supposed that , from the day when he first opened his ...
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... John's was not then the beautiful and stately mass of architecture it has now become ; Cambridge , except for its academic structures , is by no means a grand or graceful town ; and the rural scenery around it is 12 LECTURE I.
... John's was not then the beautiful and stately mass of architecture it has now become ; Cambridge , except for its academic structures , is by no means a grand or graceful town ; and the rural scenery around it is 12 LECTURE I.
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... beautiful passage of his Guide to the Lakes , Wordsworth himself gives a sketch of the local scenery as viewed , in imagination , from one of its higher mountain - peaks , such as Great Gavel or Scawfell . In that passage he compares it ...
... beautiful passage of his Guide to the Lakes , Wordsworth himself gives a sketch of the local scenery as viewed , in imagination , from one of its higher mountain - peaks , such as Great Gavel or Scawfell . In that passage he compares it ...
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... beautiful political pamphlet on the Convention of Cintra - contri- buted to a work of art which appeared in 1810 a paper descriptive of the characteristic beauties of the English Lakes - and assisted Coleridge in his periodical paper ...
... beautiful political pamphlet on the Convention of Cintra - contri- buted to a work of art which appeared in 1810 a paper descriptive of the characteristic beauties of the English Lakes - and assisted Coleridge in his periodical paper ...
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Page 41 - Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men. Oh! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Page 43 - 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. Among thy mountains did I feel The joy of my desire; And she I cherished turned her wheel Beside an English fire. Thy mornings showed, thy nights concealed The bowers where Lucy played; And thine too is the last green field That Lucy's eyes surveyed.
Page 43 - Stranger! henceforth be warned; and know, that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Page 146 - I also heard the men themselves, that they sang with a loud voice, saying, " Blessing, honour, and glory, and power be to Him that sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb, for ever and ever.
Page 88 - The clouds and sunbeams, o'er his eye That once their shades and glory threw, Have left in yonder silent sky No vestige where they flew. The annals of the human race, Their ruins, since the world began, Of him afford no other trace Than this — there lived a man ! James Montgomery, THE MARCH OF TIME.
Page 44 - O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive ! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest; Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his...
Page 42 - ... the setting sun's pathetic light Engendered, hangs o'er Eildon's triple height : Spirits of power, assembled there, complain For kindred power departing from their sight ; While Tweed, best pleased in chanting a blithe strain, Saddens his voice again, and yet again. Lift up your hearts, ye mourners ! for the might Of the whole world's good wishes with him goes ; Blessings and prayers in nobler retinue Than sceptred king or laurelled conqueror knows, Follow this wondrous potentate. Be true, Ye...
Page 147 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat ? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Page 42 - 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. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me...
Page 44 - Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy! Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.