 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1879 - 390 pages
...dearest Friend, My dear, dear Friend, and in thy voice I catch The language of my former heart, and read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy...privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead 1 This line has a close resemblance to an admirable line of Young, Ihe exact expression of which I... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...language of my former heart, and read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy wild eyes. O ! yet a little while May I behold in thee what I was...all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to loy ; for she can so mform The mind that is within Us, so impress With quietness and beanty, and so... | |
 | Phebe Lankester - Wild flowers - 1879 - 298 pages
...perhaps withered flowers are the only existing souvenirs. Wordsworth, the poet of nature, tells us truly that " Nature never did betray The heart that loved...the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy! " PL INTRODUCTION. THIS little volume certainly does not presume to be a work on Botany, strictly so... | |
 | University of Missouri - Lectures and lecturing - 1879 - 522 pages
...fully realized the depth that is to be found in those well. known lines of Wordsworth: Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege Through all the years of this one life, to lead From joy to joy ; for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so imprest With... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 452 pages
...responsiveness to the natural scene: in thy voice I catch The language of my former heart, and read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy...behold in thee what I was once, My dear, dear sister! His wish is that the procession of time might in her instance make a pause. But time and aging are... | |
 | Richard Eldridge - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 236 pages
..."Prospectus" ("Fit audience let me find though few!"18), to the addresses to Dorothy in "Tintern Abbey" ("Oh! yet a little while / May I behold in thee what I was once";19 "Thy memory be as a dwelling place";20 "Nor, perchance, wilt thou then forget"21), and above... | |
 | Kevin Z. Moore - Fiction - 1993 - 344 pages
...for certain forms of romantic consciousness. Specifically, Sue's charge rescinds Wordsworth's claim that "Nature never did betray/ The heart that loved...years of this our life, to lead/ From joy to joy" ("Tintern Abbey," 122-24). This is the "plan" or promise that Sue claims "fate" has stabbed them in... | |
 | Elizabeth R. Epperly - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 292 pages
...turned to thee, O sylvan Wye! (50-6) And Wordsworth shares his memories and wisdom with his sister: Oh! yet a little while May I behold in thee what I...the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy ... (119-25) A childhood favourite of Montgomery, Wordsworth is shown here to be woven into Emily's... | |
 | Gerald L. Bruns - Philosophy - 1992 - 338 pages
...dearest Friend, My dear, dear Friend! and in thy voice I catch The language of my former heart, and read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy...behold in thee what I was once, My dear, dear Sister! ("Tintern Abbey," 111-21) One can imagine a Hoffmannesque version of this moment: Wordsworth looks... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...dearest Friend, My dear, dear Friend; and in thy voice I catch The language of my former heart, and read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy wild eyes. Oh! yet a little while 120 May I behold in thee what I was once, My dear, dear Sister! and this prayer I make, Knowing that... | |
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My dear dear Friend ; and in thy voice I catch The language of my former heart, and read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy wild eyes. Oh ! yet a little while May I behold in thee what I was once, My dear dear Sister! and this prayer I... 
