John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| William Wordsworth. (1770–1850) (continued) |
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| Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life. |
| Lines completed a few miles above Tintern Abbey. |
| 4922 |
| Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel To self-reproach. |
| The Old Cumberland Beggar. |
| 4923 |
| As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die! |
| The Old Cumberland Beggar. |
| 4924 |
| There ’s something in a flying horse, There ’s something in a huge balloon. |
| Peter Bell. Prologue. Stanza 1. |
| 4925 |
| The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,—her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. |
| Peter Bell. Prologue. Stanza 27. |
| 4926 |
| Full twenty times was Peter feared, For once that Peter was respected. |
| Peter Bell. Part i. Stanza 3. |
| 4927 |
| A primrose by a river’s brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more. |
| Peter Bell. Part i. Stanza 12. |
| 4928 |
| The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart; he never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky! |
| Peter Bell. Part i. Stanza 15. |
| 4929 |
| On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away. |
| Peter Bell. Part i. Stanza 16. |
| 4930 |
| As if the man had fixed his face, In many a solitary place, Against the wind and open sky! |
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| Note 1. The original edition (London, 1819, 8vo) had the following as the fourth stanza from the end of Part i., which was omitted in all subsequent editions:— Is it a party in a parlour? Crammed just as they on earth were crammed,— Some sipping punch, some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces see, All silent and all damned. [back] |