 ... 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
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1896 - 692 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. — p. 570: There will also be found in these volumes little of what is usually called poetic diction;... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 648 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. . . . The language, too, of these men has been adopted... | |
 | Laurie Magnus - 1897 - 512 pages
...purpose aimed at, which is, by applying the habit of discrimination to incidents and situations, to trace in them, " truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature," is best attained in those walks of life where the passions to be contemplated work with greater simplicity... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1898 - 152 pages
...coloring of imagination whereby ordinary tilings should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect; and further and above all, to make these incidents...though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our natures, chiefly as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement."... | |
 | W. H. Venable, LL. D. - 1898 - 152 pages
...coloring of imagination whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect; and further and above all, to make these incidents...though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our natures, chiefly as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement."... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1901 - 474 pages
...colouring of the 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. Now, whether this method of composition can or cannot be regarded as falling legitimately within the... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1909 - 250 pages
...of the 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 the... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 328 pages
...sublimely unconscious of the lack of that interest in others that occasionally he seemed the dor. lUiiham as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1905 - 292 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1907 - 336 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.' Had Wordsworth stopped short here his experiment must needs have proved a success, for it would have... | |
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