... a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect ; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously,... The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Page 361808Full view - About this book
| William John Courthope - 1885 - 284 pages
...colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary . things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect ; and further and above all, to make these incidents...nature : chiefly as far as regards the manner in which WB> associate ideas in a state of excitement. Here we have a compendious statement of the radical difference... | |
| James Middleton Sutherland - 1887 - 248 pages
...colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect ; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.' He contends that each of his poems has a worthy purpose ; that ' all good poetry is the spontaneous... | |
| James Middleton Sutherland - 1887 - 248 pages
...colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect ; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing ia them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature : chiefly, as far as regards... | |
| Edward Dowden - 1888 - 546 pages
...poetic pleasure; secondly (a motive first indicated in 1800), " to make the incidents of common life interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature."* Each poem, we are * It may here be noted that the celebrated " Preface of 1800," as it appears in later... | |
| William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1890 - 276 pages
...colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way ; and further, and above all, to make these incidents...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement." — Preface, 1802. It is evident that Wordsworth was at first only in part conscious of his deeper,... | |
| James Middleton Sutherland - 1892 - 270 pages
...colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect ; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents...which we associate ideas in a state of / excitement.' He contends that each of his poems \ has a worthy purpose ; that ' all good poetry is the \ spontaneous... | |
| 1915 - 556 pages
...colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect ; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement." This marks a great advance upon the sacred doctrine of Pope thatTrue Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1892 - 60 pages
...whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way ; and it was his aim farther, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting, by tracing in them the primary laws of our nature. His Excursion, which is only part of a larger and unpublished work,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1892 - 214 pages
...-these incidents and situations inter^ .',,, esting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, primary laws of our nature : chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which »e associate ideas in a state of excite'o, mentA ^Humble and rustic life was generally' chosen, !... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1893 - 394 pages
...colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect ; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of... | |
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