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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

Page 472

William Wordsworth. (1770–1850) (continued)

4960

The sweetest thing that ever grew
Beside a human door.

Lucy Gray. Stanza 2.

4961

A youth to whom was given
So much of earth, so much of heaven.

Ruth.

4962

Until a man might travel twelve stout miles,
Or reap an acre of his neighbor’s corn.

The Brothers.

4963

Something between a hindrance and a help.

Michael.

4964

Drink, pretty creature, drink!

The Pet Lamb.

4965

Lady of the Mere,
Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.

A narrow Girdle of rough Stones and Crags.

4966

And he is oft the wisest man
Who is not wise at all.

The Oak and the Broom.

4967

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

Hart-leap Well. Part ii.

4968

Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.

Hart-leap Well. Part ii.

4969

Never to blend our pleasure or our pride
With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

Hart-leap Well. Part ii.

4970

Plain living and high thinking are no more.
The homely beauty of the good old cause
Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence,
And pure religion breathing household laws.

O, Friend! I know not which way I must look.

4971

Milton! thou should’st be living at this hour:
England hath need of thee!
. . . . . .
Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart:
So didst thou travel on life’s common way
In cheerful godliness.

London, 1802.

4972

We must be free or die who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake, the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held.

It is not to be thought of.

4973

A noticeable man, with large gray eyes.

Stanzas written in Thomson’s Castle of Indolence.

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