The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 5G. Bell & Sons, 1893 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 34
Page 131
... Reader , learn from this my fate , how false , How treacherous to her promise , is the world ; And trust in God - to whose eternal doom Must bend the sceptred Potentates of earth . 20 1809 .. IV . THERE never breathed a man who , when ...
... Reader , learn from this my fate , how false , How treacherous to her promise , is the world ; And trust in God - to whose eternal doom Must bend the sceptred Potentates of earth . 20 1809 .. IV . THERE never breathed a man who , when ...
Page 136
... Reader ! if to thy bosom cling the pain Of recent sorrow combated in vain ; Or if thy cherished grief have failed to thwart Time still intent on his insidious part , Lulling the mourner's best good thoughts asleep , 16 Pilfering regrets ...
... Reader ! if to thy bosom cling the pain Of recent sorrow combated in vain ; Or if thy cherished grief have failed to thwart Time still intent on his insidious part , Lulling the mourner's best good thoughts asleep , 16 Pilfering regrets ...
Page 218
... Reader would look coldly upon my arguments , since I might be suspected of having been principally influenced by the selfish and foolish hope of reasoning him into an appro- bation of these particular Poems : and I was still more ...
... Reader would look coldly upon my arguments , since I might be suspected of having been principally influenced by the selfish and foolish hope of reasoning him into an appro- bation of these particular Poems : and I was still more ...
Page 219
... reader : but it will undoubtedly appear to many persons that I have not fulfilled the terms of an engagement thus voluntarily contracted . They who have been accustomed to the gaudiness and inane phraseology of many modern writers , if ...
... reader : but it will undoubtedly appear to many persons that I have not fulfilled the terms of an engagement thus voluntarily contracted . They who have been accustomed to the gaudiness and inane phraseology of many modern writers , if ...
Page 223
... Reader's permis- sion to apprise him of a few circumstances relating to their style , in order , among other reasons , that he may not censure me for not having performed what I never attempted . The Reader will find that ...
... Reader's permis- sion to apprise him of a few circumstances relating to their style , in order , among other reasons , that he may not censure me for not having performed what I never attempted . The Reader will find that ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admiration Æneid Alfoxden appear Beaumont beauty birds Black Comb blessing breast breath Charles Lamb cheer Church Coleorton composition Cuckoo Dated by Wordsworth dear death delight Dorothy Wordsworth doth earth epitaph excited eyes faith Fancy feelings flowers genius grace Grasmere ground hath heart Heaven honour hope human I. F. Dated images imagination inscription labour Lady language lines live look metre metrical mild ale mind mountain nature never night o'er objects pain Paradise Lost passion peace Peele Castle pleasure Poet Poet's poetical poetry poor praise previously Professor Knight prose published 1835 Reader RYDAL RYDAL MOUNT Savona Shakspeare sight sleep song Sonnets sorrow soul spirit stanza sweet taste Text unchanged thee things thou thought tion truth vale verse voice WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind words Wordsworth's poems writing written youth Zoönomia