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William Wordsworth   /wˈɪljəm wˈərdzwərθ/   Listen
William Wordsworth

noun
1.
A romantic English poet whose work was inspired by the Lake District where he spent most of his life (1770-1850).  Synonym: Wordsworth.






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"William Wordsworth" Quotes from Famous Books



... The Mausoleum Dr. Norman Macleod Prince of Wales Princess of Wales Osborne House Sir Robert Napier Mr. Gladstone Lord Beaconsfield Lord Salisbury General Gordon Duke of Albany Duchess of Albany Sydney Heads Robert Southey William Wordsworth Alfred Tennyson Robert Browning Charles Dickens W. M. Thackeray Charlotte Bronte Lord Macaulay Thomas Carlyle William Whewell, D.D. Sir David Brewster Sir James Y. Simpson Michael Faraday David Livingstone Sir John Franklin John Ruskin Dean Stanley "I was ...
— Great Britain and Her Queen • Anne E. Keeling

... think of the minister who is without a sense of consecration? The responsibility of the student or the teacher is quite as large, the opportunity for service quite as wonderful. One of our greatest English poets, William Wordsworth, exclaimed: "I wish to be considered as a teacher, or as nothing!" The calling of the teacher, of the student, has through all time been thought a high one,—one that has drawn to itself fine and unselfish spirits. The life of the student, no matter how necessary to ...
— A Girl's Student Days and After • Jeannette Marks



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