| 1863 - 514 lehte
...to say, until Mr. Charles Kingsley said to himself, we will suppose, as Nature of Wordsworth's Lucy, This child I to myself will take, She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own of her. Gibbon, probably, on the strength of his Decline and Fall, and Goldsmith, certainly, on the... | |
| William Harrison Ainsworth - 1863 - 514 lehte
...Charles Kingsley said to himself, we will suppose, as Nature of Wordsworth's Lucy, This child I to mjself will take, She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own of her. Gibbon, probably, on the strength of his Decline and Fall, and Goldsmith, certainly, on the... | |
| Darrel Abel - 1988 - 348 lehte
...under the influence of nature, with whom alone she enjoys immediate and entire intimacy.1 Nature said. This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. In effect, Wordsworth shows Nature undertaking a controlled experiment, with a selected specimen of... | |
| Susan Eilenberg - 1992 - 302 lehte
...allegory, greatest of ventriloquists.27 He is also King of the Underworld, his opening words — A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This Child...She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own — suggesting echoes of the Persephone myth, filtered perhaps through Paradise Lost: Not that fair... | |
| Richard Condon - 1992 - 310 lehte
...Wordsworth's as he softly spoke the poetry. Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This Child...shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own." He mooned up at her, his eyes as pleading as a dachshund's. "Wordsworth certainly wasn't much of a... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 lehte
...Three years she grew in sun and shower 48 Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, 'A lovelierX . (1. 1 -4) POETRY QUOTATIONS V. A slumber did my spirit seal 49 She seemed a thing that could not feel... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 lehte
...'Three years she grew in sun and shower' Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This Child...impulse: and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, 10 In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain. 'She... | |
| Nancy Kiefer - 1995 - 84 lehte
...of those? LUCY. No, I haven't. DOMENIC. "Three years she grew in sun and shower Then Nature said: "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This Child...shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own." LUCY. Is she dead in that poem, too? DOMENIC. She's dead in all the poems. LUCY. Who was she? DOMENIC.... | |
| William Wordsworth - 2000 - 788 lehte
...'Three years she grew in sun and shower' Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This Child...and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain. She shall be sportive as the fawn That wild with glee across the lawn Or up the mountain... | |
| Satya Colpani - 2001 - 204 lehte
...her misery and carry her over the waters to his land of dreams and fulfilment. Then nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown: This child...She shall be mine and I will make A lady of my own." But all that of course was only a dream. 118 11 Raj was faced with problems at work His furniture business... | |
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