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" Therefore, although it be a history Homely and rude, I will relate the same For the delight of a few natural hearts, And with yet fonder feeling, for the sake Of youthful Poets, who among these Hills Will be my second self when I am gone. "
Lyrical Ballads,: With Other Poems. In Two Volumes - Page 201
by William Wordsworth - 1800
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the modern student's library

william worsworth - 1923 - 498 pages
...objects, led me on to feel For passions that were not my own, and think (At random and imperfectly indeed) On man, the heart of man, and human life....a history Homely and rude, I will relate the same And, with yet fonder feelings, for the sake Of youthful Poets, who among these hills Will be my second...
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English Poetry of the Nineteenth Century: A Connected Representation of ...

George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - English poetry - 1923 - 864 pages
...objects, led me on to feel 30 For passions that were not my own, and think (At random and imperfectly indeed) On man, the heart of man, and human life....a history Homely and rude, I will relate the same 35 For the delight of a few natural hearts; And, with yet fonder feeling, for the sake Of youthful...
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British Poets of the Nineteenth Century, Part 2

Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1910 - 966 pages
...objects, led me on to feel For passions that were not my own, and think (At random and imperfectly wet hair backward from her brow, Her hand close to...but shame All through her heart, yet felt her chee youth ful Poets, who among these hills Will be my second self when I am gone. UPON the forest-side...
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British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge ...

Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1924 - 486 pages
...delight of a few natural hearts ; And, with yet fonder feeling, for the sake Of youthful Poets, whoamong these hills Will be my second self when I am gone. UPON the forest -side in Grasmere Vale There dwelt a Shepherd, Michael was his name ; An old man. stout of heart,...
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Century Types of English Literature Chronologically Arranged

George William McClelland - English Literature (selections: Extracts, Etc.) - 1925 - 1180 pages
...objects, led me on to feel J0 For passions that were not my own, and think (At random and imperfectly ` . 654 6SS Upon the forest-side in Grasmere Vale *° Of hardship, skill or courage, joy or fear ; There...
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Century Types of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged

George William McClelland - English literature - 1925 - 1178 pages
...objects, led me on to feel 3 ° For passions that were not my own, and think (At random and imperfectly nd Upon the forest-side in Grasmere Vale 4 ° Of hardship, skill or courage, joy or fear; There dwelt...
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The Poetry of the Age of Wordsworth...

John Dover Wilson - English literature - 1927 - 310 pages
...objects, led me on to feel 30 For passions that were not my own, and think (At random and imperfectly indeed) On man, the heart of man, and human life....when I am gone. Upon the forest-side in Grasmere Vale 40 There dwelt a Shepherd, Michael was his name; An old man, stout of heart, and strong of limb. His...
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Heath Readings in the Literature of England

Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...natural objects, led me on to feel 30 For passions that were not my own, and think NINETEENTH CENTURY 35 For the delight of a few natural hearts; And, with yet fonder feeling, for the sake Of youthful...
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Vision and Disenchantment: Blake's Songs and Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads

Heather Glen, Senior Lecturer Faculty of English Cambridge University and Fellow of New Hall Heather Glen - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 420 pages
...the easy, conversational opening awakens doubt as to the potential future audience for this 'Tale': although it be a history Homely and rude, I will relate...who among these Hills Will be my second self when 1 am gone. (11. 34-9) 331 The story it introduces is one in which the hope of a 'second self is disappointed,...
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Rhetoric, Literature, and Interpretation

Harry Raphael Garvin - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 194 pages
...the fields and hills / Where was their occupation and abode" (11. 23-26), and slants his narration "for the sake / Of youthful Poets, who among these hills / Will be my second self when I am gone" (11. 37—39). Whatever Wordsworth's original intention may have been, the pragmatic form of "Michael,"...
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