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"Lastingness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Wordsworth's mind could be raised only by the white heat of profoundly inward passion. And in proportion to the intensity needful to make his nature thoroughly aglow is the very high quality of his best verses. They seem rather the productions of nature than of man, and have the lastingness of such, delighting our age with the same startle of newness and beauty that pleased our youth. Is it his thought? It has the shifting inward lustre of diamond. Is it his feeling? It is as delicate as the impressions of fossil ferns. He seems to have caught and fixed for ever ...
— English Critical Essays - Nineteenth Century • Various |
Words linked to "Lastingness" : permanency, persistence, strength, tensile strength, enduringness, permanence, continuity, lasting, changelessness, indestructibility, durability |
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