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" When from our better selves we have too long Been parted by the hurrying world, and droop, Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, How gracious, how benign, is Solitude... "
The Bombay university calendar - Page clx
by Bombay city, univ - 1880
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The Ecclesiastic [afterw.] The Theologian and ecclesiastic ..., Volumes 11-12

856 pages
...all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd." A passage possibly in Wordsworth's mind when he wrote — " When from our better selves we have too long Been...pleasures tired, How gracious, how benign is solitude." — p. 100. We now come to a book upon books, which to us seems a somewhat disappointing one, if not...
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The Prelude ; Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem

William Wordsworth - 1850 - 412 pages
...God's works, Whether held forth in Nature or in Man, Through pregnant vision, separate or conjoined. When from our better selves we have too long Been...droop, Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, n2 How gracious, how benign, is Solitude ; How potent a mere image of her sway; Mont potent when impressed...
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The Prelude, Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem

William Wordsworth - 1850 - 396 pages
...God's works, Whether held forth in Nature or in Man, Through pregnant vision, separate or conjoined. When from our better selves we have too long Been...hurrying world, and droop, Sick of its business, of its pleasure tired, How gracious, how benign, is Solitude ; How potent a mere image of her sway ; Most...
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The Prelude, Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem

William Wordsworth - 1850 - 388 pages
...God's works, Whether held forth in Nature or in Man, Through pregnant vision, separate or conjoined. When from our better selves we have too long Been...hurrying world, and droop, Sick of its business, of its pleasure tired. SUMMER VACATION. How gracious, how benign, is Solitude ; How potent a mere image of...
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Memoirs of William Wordsworth, Volume 1

Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 506 pages
...this natural agency are described by Wordsworth in the fourth book of his autobiographical poem : ' When from our better selves we have too long Been...pleasures tired, How gracious, how benign is solitude ! ' ' And, describing the effect of one of his walks at early dawn at this time, and in this country,...
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The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Late Poet Laureate

William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...Man, Through pregnant vision, separate or conjoined. When from our better selves we have too Ion" • Been parted by the hurrying world, and droop, Sick of its business, of its pleasure tired, How gracious, how benign, is Solitude; How potent a mere image of her sway ; Most potent...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 7

William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1854 - 432 pages
...God's works, Whether held forth in Nature or in Man, Through pregnant vision, separate or conjoined. When from our better selves we have too long Been...hermit, Deep in the bosom of the wilderness ; Votary (in vast cathedral, where no foot Is treading, where no other face is seen) Kneeling at prayers ; or watchman...
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The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1854 - 776 pages
...God's works, Whether held forth in Nature or in Man, Through pregnant vision, separate or conjoined. When from our better selves we have too long Been...hurrying world, and droop, Sick of its business, of its pleasure tired, I 1 1 Is treading, where no other face is seen) Kneeling at prayers ; or watchman on...
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The Ladies' Reader: Designed for the Use of Ladies' Schools and Family ...

John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1860 - 450 pages
...common dawn — Dews, vapors, and the melody of birds, And laborers going forth to till the fields. When from our better selves we have too long Been...hurrying world, and droop, Sick of its business, of its pleasure tired, How gracious, how benign, is Solitude ; How potent a mere image of her sway; Most potent...
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The Solitudes of Nature and of Man: Or, The Loneliness of Human Life

William Rounseville Alger - Loneliness - 1867 - 420 pages
...heaven. What a strain he pours on the ears of the fops, loungers, gladiators, and slaves of time ! — When from our better selves we have too long Been...impressed upon the mind With an appropriate human centre, — a hermit, Deep in the bosom of the wilderness ; • Votary, in vast cathedral, where no foot Is...
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