William Wordsworth Citations
William Wordsworth: Citations en anglais
Attributed by Anna Jameson in her A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories and Fancies (1854).
Lines (1795)
“The bane of all that dread the Devil.”
The Idiot Boy.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Stanza 3.
She Was a Phantom of Delight http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww259.html (1804)
“The common growth of Mother Earth
Suffices me,—her tears, her mirth,
Her humblest mirth and tears.”
Prologue, stanza 27.
Peter Bell (1798)
“A famous man is Robin Hood,
The English ballad-singer's joy.”
Rob Roy's Grave, st. 1.
Memorials of a Tour in Scotland (1803)
Part I, No. 25 - Missions and Travels.
Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1821)
O Nightingale! Thou Surely Art, l. 17 (1807).
“A Briton even in love should be
A subject, not a slave!”
Ere with Cold Beads of Midnight Dew.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The soft blue sky did never melt
Into his heart; he never felt
The witchery of the soft blue sky!”
Part I, stanza 15.
Peter Bell (1798)
To the Same Flower (the Daisy), st. 2 (1805).
Poems Composed or Suggested During a Tour in the Summer of 1833, "There!" said a Stripling, l. 10 (1833).
“Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;
Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,
Frozen by distance.”
Address to Kilchurn Castle.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
The Fountain, st. 8 & 9 (1799).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)
“A jolly place," said he, "in times of old!
But something ails it now: the spot is cursed.”
Hart-leap Well, part ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Alas! What Boots the Long Laborious Quest?, l. 11 (1809).
“Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way.”
Stanza 2.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww260.html (1804)
I Travelled Among Unknown Men, st. 1 (1799).
“Those old credulities, to Nature dear,
Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock
Of history?”
Memorials of a Tour in Italy, iv
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Whom neither shape of danger can dismay,
Nor thought of tender happiness betray.”
Source: Character of the Happy Warrior http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww302.html (1806), Line 72.
