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William Wordsworth, né le 7 avril 1770 à Cockermouth , mort le 23 avril 1850 à Rydal , près d'Ambleside , est un poète anglais. Il inaugure, avec Samuel Taylor Coleridge, la période romantique de la littérature anglaise lors de la publication de Lyrical Ballads . Son œuvre maîtresse est Le Prélude, poème autobiographique consacré aux expériences fondatrices de sa jeunesse. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. avril 1770 – 23. avril 1850  •  Autres noms Уильям Вордсворт, ویلیام وردزورث
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“A simple child,
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death?”

William Wordsworth livre Lyrical Ballads

We Are Seven, st. 1 (1798).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

“And homeless near a thousand homes I stood,
And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.”

William Wordsworth

Guilt and Sorrow, st. 41 (1791-1794) Section XLI.
Contexte: And oft I thought (my fancy was-so strong)
That I, at last, a resting-place had found:
'Here: will I dwell,' said I,' my whole life long,
Roaming the illimitable waters round;
Here will I live, of all but heaven disowned.
And end my days upon the peaceful flood—
To break my dream the vessel reached its bound;
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood,
And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

“Faith is a passionate intuition.”

William Wordsworth

Source: Garbled version of c. l 1295 of Despondency Corrected (Vol. 5 of W's Poetical Works on Gurenberg)

“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.”

William Wordsworth

This is only a slightly misquoted version of "Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them", written by Frank Lloyd Wright in the magazine Architectural Record in March 1908.
Misattributed

“O for a single hour of that Dundee,
Who on that day the word of onset gave!”

William Wordsworth

Sonnet. In the Pass of Killicranky, l. 11 (1803).
Variante: O for a single hour of that Dundee,
Who on that day the word of onset gave!

“We take no note of time but from its loss.”

William Wordsworth

Actually Night I, lines 55-56 of Young's Night Thoughts.
Misattributed

“A youth to whom was given
So much of earth—so much of heaven,
And such impetuous blood.”

William Wordsworth livre Lyrical Ballads

Ruth, st. 21 (1799).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

“The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift,
That no philosophy can lift.”

William Wordsworth

Presentiments.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“A brotherhood of venerable trees.”

William Wordsworth

Sonnet. Composed at ____ Castle, l. 6.
Memorials of a Tour in Scotland (1803)

“To be a Prodigal's favourite,—then, worse truth,
A Miser's pensioner,—behold our lot!”

William Wordsworth

The Small Celandine.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The fretful stir
Unprofitable, and the fever of the world
Have hung upon the beatings of my heart.”

William Wordsworth

Source: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Lines completed a few miles above Tintern Abbey.

“A cheerful life is what the Muses love,
A soaring spirit is their prime delight.”

William Wordsworth

From the Dark Chambers of Dejection Freed, l. 13 (1814).

“Enough, if something from our hands have power
To live, and act, and serve the future hour.”

William Wordsworth

The River Duddon, sonnet 34 - Afterthought, l. 10 (1820).

“A day
Spent in a round of strenuous idleness.”

William Wordsworth livre The Prelude

Bk. IV, l. 377.
The Prelude (1799-1805)

“O sylvan Wye! thou wanderer thro' the woods,
How often has my spirit turned to thee!”

William Wordsworth livre Lyrical Ballads

Stanza 3.
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800), Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey (1798)

“A noticeable man, with large gray eyes.”

William Wordsworth

Stanzas written in Thomson's Castle of Indolence.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“A remnant of uneasy light.”

William Wordsworth

The Matron of Jedborough.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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