...that in this great political agitation, poetry seemed to have died out entirely. He said it had ; but that was not the only cause ; for there had been,...converses with great earnestness, and has a habit, as he * I depart here from the rule I have laid down to myself— not to draw any details of private society...

...him. Dr. Orville Dcwey, of Boston in America, gives an interesting account of a visit paid in 1833. " Mr. W converses with great earnestness, and has a...fifth step and turning round to you to enforce what ho is saying.* The subjects the first evening I passed with him, were, as I have said, politics and...

...that, in this great political agitation, poetry seemed to have died out entirely. He said it had ; but that was not the only cause ; for there had been,...some years ago, an over-production and a surfeit. Mr. Wordsworth converses with great earnestness, and has a habit, as he walks and talks, of stopping every...

...politics, religion, and poetry struck fire in both, and they had much talk. "Mr. Wordsworth," he says, "converses with great earnestness, and has a habit,...turning round to you to enforce what he is saying." After tea they went for a walk to Grasmere Lake. "In that loveliest of all scenes I ever witnessed...