 | Peter Viereck, Joseph Brodsky - 1995 - 320 páginas
...man." NOTES (1987) 1. "The die is cast."—Caesar, crossing the Rubicon River in his march on Rome. 2. "My dear, dear Sister! And this prayer I make / Knowing that Nature never did betray / The heart that loved her."—Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey. 3. Rimaud's letter of May 13,1871: "Je est un autre." ("I... | |
 | Hisaaki Yamanouchi - 1997 - 248 páginas
...repeat and re-emphasize the strength to be drawn in adversity from the memory of such past happiness: Oh! yet a little while May I behold in thee what I...the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy ... (119-25) One could conclude the interpretation of the poem here in a state of modified pessimism... | |
 | Margaret Russett - 1997 - 295 páginas
...physical and psychological likeness: ... in thy voice I catch The language of my former heart, and read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy...behold in thee what I was once, My dear, dear Sister! (LB 117:117-22) De Quinceyan or minor transmission, by contrast, speaks the strange language of the... | |
 | John Rieder - 1997 - 273 páginas
...presence turns out to be riven by that contradiction. The unresolved tension appears in the exclamation, "Yet a little while / May I behold in thee what I was once," which may declare Wordsworth's reassurance of at least limited access to his former self, but equally... | |
 | Kenneth R. Johnston, Kenneth R.. Johnston - 1998 - 965 páginas
...portrait of Dorothy is in fact a portrait of William's passion, as reflected in her eyes: [I] read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy...behold in thee what I was once, My dear, dear Sister! (117-22) This language of passion is the more noteworthy because its reference to himself five years... | |
 | Edward E. Leslie - 1998 - 586 páginas
...finds only one last orphan, chastened and adrift. PART III LORDS OF THE FOWL AND THE BRUTE Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege....the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy. . . . — William Wordsworth Naked and without a man-made thing, I depend on Nature, who, if we will... | |
 | Catherine Robson - 2001 - 250 páginas
...kind of time-delayed doppelganger: ... in thy voice I catch The language of my former heart, and read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy...behold in thee what I was once, My dear, dear Sister! (1l. 116-21) Although Wordsworth does not preclude the possibility of further development for Dorothy... | |
 | Leon Waldoff - 2001 - 180 páginas
...voice I catch / The language of my former heart, and read / My former pleasures," and then exclaims, "Oh! yet a little while / May I behold in thee what I was once" (II 6—20), he casts her in the role of a younger, more innocent version of himself, and casts himself... | |
 | Stuart Peterfreund - 2002 - 406 páginas
...Wordsworthian speaker gainsays an earlier article of faith, namely, the statement in "Tintern Abbey" that Nature never did betray The heart that loved...the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy. (WPW, 11. 122-25) For Shelley's Wordsworthian speaker, Nature is not to be followed joyfully as a leader... | |
 | Rita Shea Guffey Chair of English Timothy Morton, Timothy Morton, Nigel Smith - 2002 - 284 páginas
...seventeenth-century lawyer Sir William Drake. 40 The allusion in Wordsworth is in T1ntern Abbey, lines 1 22-4: 'And this prayer I make, / Knowing that Nature never did betray / The heart that loved her.' Cf. Samuel Daniel, The Civil Wars, 11.225 6: 'Here have you craggy rocks to take your part,... | |
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My dear dear Friend ; and in thy voice I catch The language of my former heart, and read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy wild eyes. Oh ! yet a little while May I behold in thee what I was once, My dear dear Sister! and this prayer I... 
