English Childhood: Wordsworth's Treatment of Childhood in the Light of English Poetry from Prior to Crabbe |
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... look with pleasure upon the " green lustre " of the scales , and will innocently play with the " forky tongue . " Such elaborated accessories are out of harmony 1 The classicists were undoubtedly indebted to a passage in Horace's Ars ...
... look with pleasure upon the " green lustre " of the scales , and will innocently play with the " forky tongue . " Such elaborated accessories are out of harmony 1 The classicists were undoubtedly indebted to a passage in Horace's Ars ...
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... looks expressed " ) , the child is less the subject than the poet himself . When he is thinking of the child , after the opening lines , he is concerned about her " riper year . " poet returns to the beau in embryo and invokes the IN ...
... looks expressed " ) , the child is less the subject than the poet himself . When he is thinking of the child , after the opening lines , he is concerned about her " riper year . " poet returns to the beau in embryo and invokes the IN ...
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... look is seen The innocence which plays within . Nor is the fault'ring tongue confined To lisp the dawnings of the mind , But fair and full her words convey The little all they have to say ; And each fond parent , as they fall , Finds ...
... look is seen The innocence which plays within . Nor is the fault'ring tongue confined To lisp the dawnings of the mind , But fair and full her words convey The little all they have to say ; And each fond parent , as they fall , Finds ...
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... looks into the future . When the child is twining round his knees , his eyes will often fill with tears as he traces the mother's smiles and thinks of how the child was " Bought with a life yet dearer than thy own . " Then he touches ...
... looks into the future . When the child is twining round his knees , his eyes will often fill with tears as he traces the mother's smiles and thinks of how the child was " Bought with a life yet dearer than thy own . " Then he touches ...
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... look to classicist material , the spontaneous nature imagery , which recognizes no cleavage between flower and child , places this effusion by the side of its com- panion poem as a charming manifestation of the new atti- tude in ...
... look to classicist material , the spontaneous nature imagery , which recognizes no cleavage between flower and child , places this effusion by the side of its com- panion poem as a charming manifestation of the new atti- tude in ...
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Ambrose Philips animals attitude Auguries of Innocence babe ballad beauty benevolists birds Blake Burns chap books Charles Lamb chil child child labor childhood Clara Reeve classical classicist close Compare conception Cowper Crabbe delight dren Dunciad early Echoing Green eighteenth century emotion English Excursion expression fact fairy father feeling flowers hand happy heart humanitarian imagery industry infant interest Isaac Watts Lamb Langhorne lines live look Lovibond mind Monody mood moral mother muse native fields nature noticed o'er observation orphans parents phrasing play poem poet's poetic poetry poets poor Prelude raven's nest reader recalls recollection reveals romantic Rousseau Sarah Trimmer schoolboy schoolmistress sentimental simple Songs of Experience Songs of Innocence soul spirit sport stanza story sweet sympathy teach tear tender thee Thomson thou thought tion traditional universal benevolence verse village Watts Wordsworth write young youth
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Page 396 - Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy soul's immensity ; Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind. That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind ; — Mighty prophet ! Seer blest ! On whom those truths do rest. Which we are toiling all our lives to find...
Page 382 - A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 392 - We in thought will join your throng, Ye that pipe and ye that play, Ye that through your hearts today Feel the gladness of the May!
Page 391 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Page 133 - He who stills the raven's clam'rous nest, And decks the lily fair in flowery pride, Would in the way His wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide ; But chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preside.
Page 395 - I hear! —But there's a Tree, of many one, A single Field which I have looked upon, Both of them speak of something that is gone: The Pansy at my feet Doth the same tale repeat: Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream?
Page 226 - How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads the wax ! And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In works of labour, or of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past; That I may give for every day Some good account at last.
Page 132 - Belyve,* the elder bairns come drapping in, At service out, amang the farmers roun
Page 290 - WHEN my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry
Page 285 - I'll tell thee: He is called by thy name, For He calls Himself a Lamb. He is meek, and He is mild; He became a little child. I a child, and thou a lamb, We are called by His name. Little Lamb, God bless thee!