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William Wordsworth war ein britischer Dichter und führendes Mitglied der englischen Romantikbewegung, die er 1798 durch die zusammen mit Samuel Taylor Coleridge verfassten Lyrical Ballads initiierte. Als sein Meisterwerk gilt das frühe autobiografische Gedicht The Prelude .

✵ 7. April 1770 – 23. April 1850   •   Andere Namen Уильям Вордсворт, ویلیام وردزورث
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„Du schaust umher auf unsrer Mutter Erde,// als wärst ohn’ Daseinszweck Du Erdenwesen,// als wären hinterlassen Dir nicht Werte,// und vor dir keiner wär gewesen!“

Expostulation and Reply - Vorhaltung und Erwiderung, c. 1798, p. 1798 in Lyrical Ballade , william-wordsworth.de http://william-wordsworth.de/translations/expostulation%20and%20Reply.html

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“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).

“Something between a hindrance and a help.”

William Wordsworth buch 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 buch The Prelude

Bk. I, l. 301.
The Prelude (1799-1805)

“And 't is my faith, that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.”

Quelle: 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.
She Was a Phantom of Delight http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww259.html (1804)

“Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!”

Stanza 1.
Ode to Duty http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww271.html (1805)

“That inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude.”

Stanza 4.
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)

“A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye;
Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.”

She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways, st. ? (1799).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“For nature then
(The coarser pleasures of my boyish days,
And their glad animal movements all gone by)
To me was all in all.—I cannot paint
What then I was.”

William Wordsworth buch 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)

“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)

“Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.”

A Morning Exercise.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man?”

William Wordsworth buch Lyrical Ballads

Quelle: 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)

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