William Wordsworth słynne cytaty
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. (ang.)
Źródło: Żonkile, tłum. Maciej Froński
William Wordsworth: Cytaty po angielsku
William Wordsworth The Recluse
The Recluse, l. 401 (1805).
“Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel
To self-reproach.”
The Old Cumberland Beggar.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Ocean is a mighty harmonist.”
On the Power of Sound, st. 12 (1828).
William Wordsworth książka Lyrical Ballads
Stanza 3.
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800), Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey (1798)
William Wordsworth książka The Prelude
Bk. III, l. 60.
The Prelude (1799-1805)
“Something between a hindrance and a help.”
William Wordsworth książka Lyrical Ballads
Michael. A Pastoral Poem, l. 189 (1800).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)
“The best of what we do and are,
Just God, forgive!”
Thoughts suggested on the Banks of the Nith.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is its exact opposite.”
This was not Wordsworth's viewpoint at all. The words are in fact those of Bertrand Russell in his Sceptical Essays (1928), p. 157.
Misattributed
“Fair seedtime had my soul, and I grew up
Fostered alike by beauty and by fear.”
William Wordsworth książka The Prelude
Bk. I, l. 301.
The Prelude (1799-1805)
William Wordsworth książka Lyrical Ballads
Preface.
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)
“And 't is my faith, that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.”
Źródło: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Lines written in Early Spring.
“Meek Walton's heavenly memory.”
Part III, No. 5 – Walton's Book of Lives.
Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1821)
“And now I see with eye serene
The very pulse of the machine.”
Stanza 3. <br class="br"> She Was a Phantom of Delight http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww259.html (1804)
“Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!”
Stanza 1. <br class="br"> Ode to Duty http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww271.html (1805)
“That inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude.”
Stanza 4. <br class="br"> I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww260.html (1804)
“Oh, be wise, Thou!
Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.”
Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23.
Lines (1795)
Force of Prayer.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
William Wordsworth książka Lyrical Ballads
Preface.
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways, st. ? (1799).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
William Wordsworth książka Lyrical Ballads
Stanza 3.
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800), Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey (1798)
“Sweetest melodies
Are those that are by distance made more sweet.”
Personal Talk, Stanza 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“No bird, but an invisible thing,
A voice, a mystery.”
To the Cuckoo, st. 4 (1804).
“The gentle Lady married to the Moor,
And heavenly Una with her milk-white lamb.”
Personal Talk, Stanza 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
William Wordsworth książka Lyrical Ballads
Preface.
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)
“Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.”
A Morning Exercise.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
To Toussaint L'Ouverture, l. 12 (1807).
“Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man?”
William Wordsworth książka Lyrical Ballads
Źródło: Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800), Lines Written in Early Spring, st. 6 (1798).
“Earth helped him with the cry of blood.”
Song at the Feast of Broughton Castle.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
