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peasant in him, mixed with streaks of sentimental melancholy and
rare splashes of intuituve sensibility.

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EXERCISES

Phonetic Exercises

1. Learn by heart.

She Was a Phantom of Delight

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By William Wordsworth

She was a Phantom of delight
When first she gleamed upon my sight;
A lovely Apparation, sent
To be a moment’s ornament;
Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair;
Like Twilight’s too, her dusky hair;
But all things else about her drawn
From May-time and the cheerful Dawn;
A dancing Shape, an Image gay,
To haunt, to startle, and waylay.

I saw her upon nearer view,
A Spirit, yet a Woman too!
Her household motions light and free,
And steps of virgin-liberty;
A countenance in which did meet
Sweet records, promises as sweet;
A Creature not to bright or good

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Текст друкується за виданням Дяконова Н. Я., Амелина Т. А.
Хрестоматия по английской литературе. – Ленинград: Просвещение, 1978.
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