 The moment was important in my poetical history ; for I date from it my consciousness of the infinite variety of natural appearances which had been unnoticed by the poets of any age or country, so far as I was acquainted with them ; and I made a resolution...  English Men of Letters - Page 22edited by - 1894Full view - About this book
 | Robert Aspland - 1851 - 780 pages
...struck me. It was on the way between Hawkshead and Ambleside, and gave me extreme pleasure. The moment was important in my poetical history ; for I date...resolution to supply in some degree the deficiency. I could not have been at that time above fourteen years of age. The description of the swans that follows,... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 506 pages
...struck me. It was on the way between Hawkshead and Ambleside, and gave me extreme pleasure. The moment was important in my poetical history ; for I date...resolution to supply in some degree the deficiency. I could not have been at that time above fourteen years of age. The description of the Swans that follows... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 492 pages
...pleasure. The moment was im1 From MSS. IF See above, p. 22. note. They were dictated in 1843. portant in my poetical history ; for I date from it my consciousness...resolution to supply in some degree the deficiency. I could not have been at that time above fourteen .years of age. The description of the Swans that... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 488 pages
...poetical history ; for I date from it my 1 consciousness of the infinite variety of natural ap! pearances which had been unnoticed by the poets of any age or...resolution to supply in some degree the deficiency. I could not have been at that time above fourteen years of age. The description of the Swans that follows... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 524 pages
...struck me. It was on the way between Hawkshead and Ambleside, and gave me extreme pleasure. The moment was important in my poetical history ; for I date from it my consciousaddressed to his fellow traveller, Jones, and published in the year 1793.1 A comparison of... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 432 pages
...struck me. It was on the way between Hawkshead and Ambleside, and gave me extreme pleasure. The moment was important in my poetical history; for I date from...resolution to supply in some degree the deficiency. I could not have been at that time above fourteen years of age. The description of the Swans that follows... | |
 | B. J. Wallace, Albert Barnes - 1855 - 722 pages
...moment of its observation was important in his poetical history, "For I date from it," he continued, " my consciousness of the infinite variety of natural...resolution to supply in some degree the deficiency. I could not have been at that time above fourteen years of age."* How he kept his resolution we surely... | |
 | 1861 - 1050 pages
...dark outline of an oak against the western sky ; and he says that he was at that moment struck with " the infinite variety of natural appearances which...unnoticed by the poets of any age or country," so far as he was acquainted with them, and " made a resolution to supply in some degree the deficiency." He spent... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1863 - 388 pages
...dark outline of an oak against the western sky ; and he says that he was at that moment struck with " the infinite variety of natural appearances which...unnoticed by the poets of any age or country," so far as he was acquainted with them, and " made a resolution to supply in some degree the deficiency." He spent... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1863 - 380 pages
...dark outline of an oak against the western sky ; and he says that he was at that moment struck with " the infinite variety of natural appearances which...unnoticed by the poets of any age or country," so far as he was acquainted with them, and " made a resolution to supply in some degree the deficiency." He spent... | |
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