 | William Bayne - 1903 - 304 pages
...; in the dedication the poet remarks that " some of the best pieces were composed underthe shadesof your own groves, upon the classic ground of Coleorton...name and family who were born in that neighbourhood. Nor is there any one to whom such parts of this collection, as have been inspired or coloured by the... | |
 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - 1904 - 404 pages
...the following extract from the dedication of his poetical works to Sir George Beaumont will show : Several of the best pieces were composed under the...shade of your own groves, upon the classic ground of Cole Orton, where I was animated by the recollection of those illustrious poets of your name and family... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 464 pages
...Wordsworth's friend, Sir George Howland Beaumont, to whom he dedicated the 1815 edition of his Poems. 'Some of the best pieces were composed under the shade of...own groves, upon the classic ground of Coleorton.' ' Calm contemplation, etc. ' Calm pleasures there abide — majestic pains.' Laodamsa, 1. 72. ' Fall... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1905 - 292 pages
...personally known to each other. Upon much of the remainder, also, you have a peculiar claim, — for some of the best pieces were composed under the shade of...who were born in that neighbourhood ; and, we may be assured, did not wander with indifference by the dashing stream of Grace Dieu, and among the rocks... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1907 - 568 pages
...personally known to each other. Upon much of the remainder, also, you have a peculiar claim, — for some of the best pieces were composed under the shade of...who were born in that neighbourhood ; and, we may be assured, did not wander with indifference by the dashing stream of Grace Dieu, and among the rocks... | |
 | Elias Hershey Sneath - 1912 - 344 pages
...personally known to each other. Upon much of the remainder, also, you have a peculiar claim, — for some of the best pieces were composed under the shade of...who were born in that neighbourhood ; and, we may be assured, did not wander with indifference by the dashing stream of Grace Dieu, and among the rocks... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1913 - 646 pages
...Wordsworth's friend, Sir George Beaumont, to whom he dedicated the 1815 edition of his poems: " Some of the best pieces were composed under the shade of...own groves, upon the classic ground of Cole-Orton." P. 197. Calm contemplation. Cf. '' Laodamia " : "Calm pleasures there abide, majestic pains." Fall... | |
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Upon much of the remainder, also, you have a peculiar claim, — for some of the best pieces were composed under the shade of your own groves, upon the classic ground of Coleorton ; where I was animated by the recollection of those illustrious Poets of... 
