 ... 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 Wordsworth - 1908 - 634 pages
...stated in the Preface to the second, enlarged, edition, ' was to make the incidents of common life interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature.' 1 Here Wordsworth was combating quite a different, and a much more modern, evil than conventional ;tic... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1908 - 636 pages
...stated in the Preface to the second, enlarged, edition, ' was to make the incidents of common life interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature.'1 Here Wordsworth was combating quite a different, and a much more modern, evil than conventional... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 574 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...tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the priman7 laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a... | |
 | 1910 - 482 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 - 1911 - 296 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 and situations interesting by 12 1802 : chosen, because in that condition, the 13 1802 : because in that condition of life . . .... | |
 | Elias Hershey Sneath - 1912 - 344 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 Allan Neilson - 1912 - 306 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...not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature." l Coleridge gives corroboration. " Mr. Wordsworth," he says, " was to propose to himself as his object,... | |
 | 1904 - 1036 pages
...higher measure by tracing in the experiences of the lowly the primary laws of human nature, especially "as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement." Wordsworth sought to redeem for poetic treatment what had hitherto been thought the waste places of... | |
 | Francis Cotterell Hodgson - 1913 - 464 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." Now I think we shall agree that, while this account of the nature of poetry is not inadequate as a... | |
 | 1915 - 538 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,... | |
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