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... crag ; it touches eye and heart with a symmetry of opposing yet alternating and harmonious lines of hills , and a winsome grace peculiarly its own . In itself it is pro- portioned , restrained , and complete as a Greek temple.
... crag ; it touches eye and heart with a symmetry of opposing yet alternating and harmonious lines of hills , and a winsome grace peculiarly its own . In itself it is pro- portioned , restrained , and complete as a Greek temple.
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... Crag ( Biche Crag - Hind Crag ) rise on the vision , standing out grey and grim against the sky - line , verdureless as an alpine peak , and overhanging a deep short cleugh filled AND THE BLACK DWARF . 5.
... Crag ( Biche Crag - Hind Crag ) rise on the vision , standing out grey and grim against the sky - line , verdureless as an alpine peak , and overhanging a deep short cleugh filled AND THE BLACK DWARF . 5.
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... crag . And the poet feared to undo the image , to confront his ideal with the real . Here is the true reason of " Yarrow Unvisited " : - " Be Yarrow stream unseen , unknown ! It must , or we shall rue it : We have a vision of our own ...
... crag . And the poet feared to undo the image , to confront his ideal with the real . Here is the true reason of " Yarrow Unvisited " : - " Be Yarrow stream unseen , unknown ! It must , or we shall rue it : We have a vision of our own ...
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... crag , " and the joy which thrills the lover over his successful suit . ― Seventeen years have passed , and Wordsworth is now sixty - one , having conquered his position in the realm of English poetry , a crowned monarch of song . Scott ...
... crag , " and the joy which thrills the lover over his successful suit . ― Seventeen years have passed , and Wordsworth is now sixty - one , having conquered his position in the realm of English poetry , a crowned monarch of song . Scott ...
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... crags ; the long stately reaches of the Tweed at Kelso , where he was at school , and where as a boy he read the Percy Ballads ; but , above all , the waters of the Yarrow and Ettrick . But the place , the name , was only a part of the ...
... crags ; the long stately reaches of the Tweed at Kelso , where he was at school , and where as a boy he read the Percy Ballads ; but , above all , the waters of the Yarrow and Ettrick . But the place , the name , was only a part of the ...
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