Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood

Author : William Wordsworth
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ISBN 13 : 9781331301943
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Intimations of Immorality written by William Wordsworth and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Intimations of Immorality: From Recollections of Early Childhood and Other Poems Written to gratify Mr. Grahame, of Glasgow, brother of the author of The Sabbath. He was a zealous coadjutor of Mr. Clarkson, and a man of ardent humanity. The incident had happened to himself, and he urged me to put it into verse for humanity's sake. The humbleness, meanness, if you like, of the subject, together with the homely mode of treating it, brought upon me a world of ridicule by the small critics, so that in policy I excluded it from many editions of my poems, till it was restored at the request of some of my friends, in particular my son-in-law, Edward Quillinan. The post-boy drove with fierce career, For threatening clouds the moon had drowned, When, as we hurried on, my ear Was smitten with a startling sound. As if the wind blew many ways, I heard the sound, - and more and more; It seemed to follow with the chaise, And still I heard it as before. At length I to the boy called out. He stopped his horses at the word, But neither cry, nor voice, nor shout, Nor aught else like it, could be heard. The boy then smacked his whip, and fast The horses scampered through the rain; About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.