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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 5 (of 8)

Note AJ — PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1814

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Compare Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey (vol. ii. p. 54), in which Wordsworth speaks of the rock, the mountain, and the wood, their colours and their forms, as an appetite, a feeling, and a love—

That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest ED. Unborrowed from the eye.

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