Wordsworth to TennysonH. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1913 |
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Page 13
... glory in her beauty and tenderness . Commonly it is possible to be thus sensible of the simple singer , apart from the seer , in Wordsworth - not always . I cannot pretend to press an indiscriminate resort to him for the amusement of an ...
... glory in her beauty and tenderness . Commonly it is possible to be thus sensible of the simple singer , apart from the seer , in Wordsworth - not always . I cannot pretend to press an indiscriminate resort to him for the amusement of an ...
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... night Are beautiful and fair ; The sunshine is a glorious birth ; But yet I know , where'er I go , That there hath past away a glory from the earth . Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting : 14 FIVE CENTURIES OF ENGLISH VERSE.
... night Are beautiful and fair ; The sunshine is a glorious birth ; But yet I know , where'er I go , That there hath past away a glory from the earth . Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting : 14 FIVE CENTURIES OF ENGLISH VERSE.
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... glory do we come From God , who is our Home ; Heaven lies about us in our infancy ! Shades of the prison - house begin to close Upon the growing Boy , But he beholds the light , and whence it flows , He sees it in his joy ; The Youth ...
... glory do we come From God , who is our Home ; Heaven lies about us in our infancy ! Shades of the prison - house begin to close Upon the growing Boy , But he beholds the light , and whence it flows , He sees it in his joy ; The Youth ...
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... glory of Alpine peaks has ever surpassed in splendour of diction his Hymn to Mont Blanc . It is immaterial that he was indebted for an outline of the poem to an obscure German poetess . That he had never seen the mountain or valley gave ...
... glory of Alpine peaks has ever surpassed in splendour of diction his Hymn to Mont Blanc . It is immaterial that he was indebted for an outline of the poem to an obscure German poetess . That he had never seen the mountain or valley gave ...
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... Glory boasts not.- Thank the God Who made thee , that thou art not such as he.16 When in the Paradise of his books , it will not be dis- puted that at least the shadow of inspiration falls upon him : My days among the Dead are past ...
... Glory boasts not.- Thank the God Who made thee , that thou art not such as he.16 When in the Paradise of his books , it will not be dis- puted that at least the shadow of inspiration falls upon him : My days among the Dead are past ...
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