 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...  Memoirs of William Wordsworth, Poet-laureate, D. C. L. - Sida 68efter Christopher Wordsworth - 1851Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 444 sidor
...expressed, but I recollect distinctly the very spot where this first struck me The moment was important in my poetical history ; for I date from it my consciousness...resolution to supply in some degree the deficiency." The great event of Wordsworth's school-days was the death of his father, who left what may be called... | |
 | B. J. Wallace, Albert Barnes - 1855 - 722 sidor
...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...have been at that time above fourteen years of age."* How he kept his resolution we surely need not say. Taking nothing at second-hand, but looking nature... | |
 | 1861 - 1050 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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... | |
 | 1864 - 546 sidor
...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 consciousness...have been at that time above fourteen years of age." Not a bad resolution for fourteen ! And he kept it. It would be hardly too much to say that there is... | |
 | 1864 - 744 sidor
...on the way between Hawkshcad and Ambleside, and gave me extreme pleasure. The moment was important in my poetical history ; for I date from it my consciousness...natural appearances, which had been unnoticed by the poete of any age or country, so far ae I was acquainted with them ; and I made a resolution to supply... | |
 | 1864 - 560 sidor
...the way between Hawkshead and Ambleside, and gave me ex- • treme pleasure. The moment was important in my poetical history ; for I date from it my consciousness...infinite variety of natural appearances, which had been uunoticed by the poets of any age or country, so far as I was acquainted with them ; and I made a resolution... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1870 - 342 sidor
...expressed, but I recollect distinctly the very spot where this first struck me The moment was important in my poetical history; for I date from it my consciousness...resolution to supply in some degree the deficiency." It is plain that Wordsworth's memory was playing him a trick here, misled by that instinct (it may... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - 1872 - 432 sidor
...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 consciousness...have been at that time above fourteen years of age.' Not a bad resolution for fourteen! And he kept it. It would be hardly too much to say that there is... | |
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