...all a summer's day, or scoured The sandy fields, leaping through flowery groves Of yellow ragwort ; or when rock and hill, The woods, and distant Skiddaw's...abroad in wantonness, to sport A naked savage, in the thunder shower. Fair seed-time had my soul, and I grew up Fostered alike by beauty and by fear...

...all a summer's day, or scour'd The sandy fields, leaping through flowery groves Of yellow rag-wort ; or when rock and hill, The woods, and distant Skiddaw's...abroad in wantonness, to sport, A naked savage, in the thuuder shower.' — P. 14. In the following passage, again in recounting the influences by which...

...all a summer's day, or scoured The sandy fields, leaping through flowery groves Of yellow ragwort ; or when rock and hill, The woods, and distant Skiddaw's...abroad in wantonness, to sport A naked savage, in the thunder shower. Fair seed-time had my soul, and I grew up Fostered alike by beauty and by fear...

...all a summer's day, or scoured The sandy fields, leaping through flowery groves Of yellow ragwort; or when rock and hill, The woods, and distant Skiddaw's...abroad in wantonness, to sport A naked savage, in the thunder shower. Fair seed-time had my soul, and I grew up Fostered alike by beauty and by fear...

...deepest radiance, stood alone lieneath the sky, as if I had been born On Indian plains, and from ray mother's hut Had run abroad in wantonness, to sport...effect which could not be attained in prose. Prose, how'cver, has also its proper province, and it is able to tell some things which verse, cast even in...

...again Alternate, all a summer's day, or scoured The sunny fields, leaping through flowering grove* Of yellow ragworth ; or when rock and hill, The woods,...Prelude, Book I. The scenery of the neighbourhood countries its proper place, as a necesin which he was born, and that of the sary part of a gentleman's...

...all a summer's day, or scoured The sandy fields, leaping through flowery groves Of yellow ragwort ; or when rock and hill, The woods, and distant Skiddaw's...abroad in wantonness, to sport A naked savage, in the thunder shower. Fair seed-time had my soul ; and I grew up Fostered alike by beauty and by fear...

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...were bronzed with deepest radiance," he sometimes " stood alone beneath the sky," as if, he says, " I had been born On Indian plains, and from my mother's...abroad in wantonness, to sport, A naked savage, in the thunder shower." Ere he had " told ten birth-days," it was his joy " To range th» open heights...

..." were bronzed with deepest radianco," he sometimes " stood alone beneath the sky," as if, " I bad been born On Indian plains, and from my mother's hut...abroad in wantonness, to sport. A naked savage, in the thunder shower." Ere he had "told ten birth-days," it was his joy " To range the open heights where...