Extract from, 'The Prelude' quotes Flashcards

William Wordsworth

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‘It was an act…’

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‘It was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure’

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‘a huge peak, black and huge…’

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‘a huge peak, black and huge… upreared its head’

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‘o’er my thoughts…’

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‘o’er my thoughts
There hung a darkness, call it solitude
Or blank desertion’

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‘were a trouble…’

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‘were a trouble to my dreams’

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‘She was an elfin pinnace…’

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‘She was an elfin pinnace; lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake’

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‘No familiar shapes…’

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‘No familiar shapes Remained, no pleasant images of trees, Of sea or sky, no colours of green fields’

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‘Small circles glittering idly…’

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‘Small circles glittering idly in the moon, Until they melted all into one track Of sparkling light’

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‘Proud of his skill…’

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‘Proud of his skill, to reach a chosen point With an unswerving line, I fixed my view Upon the summit of a craggy ridge’

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