 | University of Missouri - 1879 - 520 sivua
...depth that is to be found in those wellknown lines of Wordsworth: Nature never did betray The he»rt 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 impress With... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 sivua
...pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy wild eyes. Oh ! yet a little while May I behold in thee what 1 was once, My dear, dear sister ! and this prayer I...privilege. Through all the years of this our life, to lead s Abundant recompense. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 sivua
...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...Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her ; 't is her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy :... | |
 | 1921 - 744 sivua
...Thoughts that do often He too deep for tears; and expresses his poetical creed in the stanza, Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege...the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy. IV. WORDSWORTH'S THEORY OF POETRY. (Quoted.) 1. Wordsworth began his career by preaching, both by precept... | |
 | Lowry Nelson - 2010 - 333 sivua
...former heart, and read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy wild eyes. Oh! yet a tittle while May I behold in thee what I was once, My dear, dear Sister! The circle is complete: the genial spirits must subside if knowledge, or self-consciousness, or imagination,... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1989 - 452 sivua
...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! His wish is that the procession of time might in her instance make a pause. But time and aging are... | |
 | Richard Eldridge - 1989 - 236 sivua
..."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 - 1993 - 344 sivua
...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 - 1993 - 292 sivua
...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 - 1992 - 338 sivua
...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! ("Tintern Abbey," 111-21) One can imagine a Hoffmannesque version of this moment: Wordsworth looks... | |
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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... 
