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" The picture of the mind revives again : While here I stand, not only with the sense Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts That in this moment there is life and food For future years. "
Lyrical ballads, with other poems [including some by S.T. Coleridge]. From ... - Page 154
by William Wordsworth - 1802
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The Poetical Works of Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1881 - 732 pages
...half extil> guished thought, With many recognitions dim and faint, And somewhat of a sad perplexity, The picture of the mind revives again ; While here...Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first 1 came among these hills ; when like a roe I bounded o'er the mountains, by the tides Of the deep rivers,...
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by ..., Volume 4

Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 654 pages
...half-extinguished thought, With many recognitions dim and faint, And somewhat of a sad perplexity, The picture of the mind revives again : While here...Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first 1 came among these hills ; when like a roe I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides Of the deep rivers,...
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

Joseph Payne - 1881 - 510 pages
...in the " Lines on revisiting the Wye," by the same author, in which the following passage occurs: " Here I stand, not only with the sense Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thought! That in this moment there is life and food For future years." A CALM WINTER'S NIGHT. How beautiful...
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The Household Book of Poetry

Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1882 - 906 pages
...half - extinguished thought, With many recognitions dim and faint, And somewhat of a sad perplexity, The picture of the mind revives again : While here...Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first 1 came among these hills ; when like a roe I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides Of the deep rivers,...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1882 - 414 pages
...half-extinguished thought, With many recognitions dim and faint, And somewhat of a sad perplexity, The picture of the mind revives again : While here...Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first 1 came among these hills ; when like a roe I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides Of the deep rivers,...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - 1882 - 434 pages
...half-extinguished thought, With many recognitions dim and faint, And somewhat of a sad perplexity, The picture of the mind revives again : While here...hope, Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when tirst 1 came among these hills ; when like a roe I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides Of the...
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Poet's walk, an introduction to English poetry, chosen by M. Morris

Mowbray Walter Morris - 1882 - 424 pages
...pleasures of their play-time, but as a companion and a friend anxious and, I hope, able to stir them Not only with the sense Of present pleasure, but with...this moment there is life and food For future years. Cricket and football, the river, the fives-court, and the runningground, are, in their own degrees,...
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Aesthetic Illusion: Theoretical and Historical Approaches

Frederick Burwick, Walter Pape, University of California (System). Humanities Research Institute - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 494 pages
...half-extinguished thought, With many recognitions dim and faint, And somewhat of a sad perplexity, The picture of the mind revives again: While here...this moment there is life and food For future years. [...]5 This passage presents the essence of Wordsworthian memory, and it does so in a complex way....
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Power and the Pursuit of Peace: Theory and Practice in the History of ...

F. H. Hinsley - History - 1967 - 742 pages
...penetrate duration expressed as a hope that the present is a moment that can someday be remembered. "Here I stand, not only with the sense / Of present...moment there is life and food / For future years." What Wordsworth is really present to, Snyder might have argued, is his own capacity for storing the...
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Romanticism and Anthony Trollope: A Study in the Continuities of Nineteenth ...

L. J. Swingle - Romanticism - 1990 - 318 pages
...recording his awareness of his own life's progress, as evidenced most movingly in poems like Tintern Abbey: "Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first / I came among these hills; when like a roe / 1 bounded o'er the mountains" (66-68). There is, however, a crucial difference between Wordsworth's...
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