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The excursion, being a portion of The recluse, a poem - Page 61
by William Wordsworth - 1857
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 12

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1815 - 558 pages
...between those heights, And on the top of either pinnacle, More keenly than elsewhere in night's blue vault, Sparkle the stars as of their station proud....stirring there : — alone Here do I sit and watch. — p. 84. To a mind constituted like that of Mr. Wordsworth, the stream^ the torrent, and the stirring...
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The Philanthropist, Or, Repository for Hints and Suggestions ..., Volume 5

1815 - 394 pages
...keenly than elsewhere in night's blue vault, Sparkle the stars as of their station proud !! Thoughts arc not busier in the mind of man Than the mute agents...stirring there ; — alone Here do I sit and watch ! ' ' Where, in the whole fields of ancient and modern poetry, shall we find a spot more fertile in...
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1815 - 572 pages
...heights More keenly than elsewhere in night's blue vault, Sparkle the stars as of their station proud. Than the mute agents stirring there : — alone Here do I sit and watch." ' — The following are samples of more unexceptionable poetry : ' Deities that float O'er what from...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 20

1826 - 952 pages
...between those heights, And on the top of either pinnacle, More keenly than elsewhere, in night's blue vault, Sparkle the stars, as of their station proud....stirring there : — alone Here do I sit and watch." Ascending steep mountains is sla- vellers, were we to pass by Dungeonvish work ; but descending steep...
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The United States Literary Gazette, Volume 1

1825 - 426 pages
...between those heights And on the top of either pinnacle More keenly than elsewcre in night's blue v auk. Sparkle the Stars as of their station proud. Thoughts...stirring there : — alone Here do I sit and watch. — ' pp. 83-85. — Him might we liken to the setting Sun As I have seen it, on some gusty day. Struggling...
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The United States Literary Gazette, Volume 1

1825 - 412 pages
...between those heights And ou the top of either pinnacle. More keenly than elsewere in night's blue vault, .Sparkle the Stars as of their station proud. Thoughts are not busier in the mind of man Thau the mute Agents stirring there : — alone 1 1 ere do 1 sit and watch. — ' pp. 83-85. — Him...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 20

1826 - 1004 pages
...between those heights, And on the top of either pinnacle, More keenly than elsewhere, in night's blue vault, Sparkle the stars, as of their station proud....stirring there : — alone Here do I sit and watch." Ascending steep mountains is slavish work ; bu t descending stei p mountains is pastime for the lords...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 5

William Wordsworth - 1827 - 456 pages
...between those heights And on the top of either pinnacle, More keenly than elsewhere in night's blue vault, Sparkle the Stars, as of their station proud....Nightingale's last note, Had scarcely closed this high-wrought Rhapsody, Ere with inviting smile the Wanderer said, " Now for the Tale with which you threaten'd us...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 pages
...between those heights And on the top of either pinnacle, More keenly than elsewhere in night's blue vault, Sparkle the Stars, as of their station proud. Thoughts are not busier in the mind of man Than tlie mute Agents stirring there: — alone Here do I sit and watch. — »> , A fall of \oice, Regretted...
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Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland, Volume 3

Thomas Rose - 1832 - 242 pages
...between those heights And on the top of either pinnacle, More keenly than elsewhere in night's blue vault, Sparkle the stars, as of their station proud....mind of man Than the mute agents stirring there." 3 F GRISDALE, NEAR ULLSWATER,— WESTMORLAND. Grisdale is a portion of the valley of Patterdale, lying...
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