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The lines entitled Expostulation and Reply, and those which follow, arose out of conversation with a friend who was somewhat unreasonably attached to modern books of moral philosophy.
Lyrical Ballads 1798
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"Expostulation and Reply," was the "wise passiveness" of natural world's seemingly indolent observer (24).
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It occurs to me that asking students to read Wordsworth's "Expostulation and Reply" and "The Tables Turned" at the beginning of the semester might not set the desired example.
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It occurs to me that asking students to read Wordsworth's "Expostulation and Reply" and "The Tables Turned" at the beginning of the semester might not set the desired example.
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Poe's Wordsworth has never experienced childlike simplicity, but, like William of "Expostulation and Reply," dreamed "away his youth in contemplation with the end of poetizing his manhood" (412).
Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America 1999
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One of his most remarkable productions bore the title of, “The Vatican Decrees in their Bearing on Civil Allegiance; a Political Expostulation.”
The Grand Old Man Cook, Richard B 1989
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_Expostulation_, which, according to the poet himself, did much towards diverting his melancholy thoughts.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee
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There is reason to believe that this Expostulation was printed only a short month before Hutten died; and, though it bears neither date nor name of printer, that it was printed by Johannes Schott, at Strasburg, in the month of July, 1523.
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Expostulation with Landor when in the white heat of a new idea was
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Expostulation was not heeded, and the Beni M ` Saira resorted to strong measures, and kidnapped the children.
In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory
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