The excursion, being a portion of The recluse, a poem |
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... light upon his endeavours to please and , he would hope , to benefit his countrymen . - No- thing further need be added , than that the first and third parts of The Recluse will consist chiefly of medita- tions in the Author's own ...
... light upon his endeavours to please and , he would hope , to benefit his countrymen . - No- thing further need be added , than that the first and third parts of The Recluse will consist chiefly of medita- tions in the Author's own ...
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... light , So not without distinction had he lived , Beloved and honoured - far as he was known . And some small portion of his eloquent speech , And something that may serve to set in view The feeling pleasures of his loneliness , His ...
... light , So not without distinction had he lived , Beloved and honoured - far as he was known . And some small portion of his eloquent speech , And something that may serve to set in view The feeling pleasures of his loneliness , His ...
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... light ! He looked— Ocean and earth , the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass , in gladness lay Beneath him : -Far and wide the clouds were touched , And in their silent faces could he read Unutterable love . Sound needed none ...
... light ! He looked— Ocean and earth , the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass , in gladness lay Beneath him : -Far and wide the clouds were touched , And in their silent faces could he read Unutterable love . Sound needed none ...
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... the conflict and the sounds That live in darkness . From his intellect And from the stillness of abstracted thought He asked repose ; and , failing oft to win The peace required , he scanned the laws of light THE WANDERER . 13.
... the conflict and the sounds That live in darkness . From his intellect And from the stillness of abstracted thought He asked repose ; and , failing oft to win The peace required , he scanned the laws of light THE WANDERER . 13.
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William Wordsworth. The peace required , he scanned the laws of light Amid the roar of torrents , where they send From hollow clefts up to the clearer air A cloud of mist , that smitten by the sun Varies its rainbow hues . But vainly ...
William Wordsworth. The peace required , he scanned the laws of light Amid the roar of torrents , where they send From hollow clefts up to the clearer air A cloud of mist , that smitten by the sun Varies its rainbow hues . But vainly ...
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