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A hundred times when, roving high and low, I have been harassed with the toil of verse, Much pains and little progress, and at once Some lovely Image in the song rose up Full-formed like Venus rising from the sea.
A hundred times when, roving high and low, I have been harassed with the toil of verse, Much pains and little progress, and at once Some lovely Image in the song rose up Full-formed like Venus rising from the sea.
Approximate author period: c. 1810 AD · industrial
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- William Wordsworth
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- Approximate author period: c. 1810 AD · industrial
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 125 · printed citation: W. Wordsworth (Prelude, Bk. IV). · compiler notes excluded
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