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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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William Wordsworth Citations

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“Thought and theory must precede all action that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.”

William Wordsworth

Attributed by Anna Jameson in her A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories and Fancies (1854).

“The bane of all that dread the Devil.”

William Wordsworth

The Idiot Boy.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill;
perfect woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort, and command.”

William Wordsworth

Stanza 3. <br class="br"> She Was a Phantom of Delight http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww259.html (1804)

“A famous man is Robin Hood,
The English ballad-singer's joy.”

William Wordsworth

Rob Roy's Grave, st. 1.
Memorials of a Tour in Scotland (1803)

“A Briton even in love should be
A subject, not a slave!”

William Wordsworth

Ere with Cold Beads of Midnight Dew.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;
Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,
Frozen by distance.”

William Wordsworth

Address to Kilchurn Castle.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“A jolly place," said he, "in times of old!
But something ails it now: the spot is cursed.”

William Wordsworth

Hart-leap Well, part ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way.”

William Wordsworth

Stanza 2. <br class="br"> I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww260.html (1804)

“Those old credulities, to Nature dear,
Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock
Of history?”

William Wordsworth

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.”

William Wordsworth

Source: Character of the Happy Warrior http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww302.html (1806), Line 72.

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