| William Wordsworth - 1800 - 270 pages
...common life interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature : chiefly as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Low and rustic life was generally chosen because in that situation the essential passions of the heart... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 pages
...situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature : chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition, the essential passions of the... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature : chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition, the essential passions of the... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...interesting, by tracing in them, truly, though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our Nature j chieSjr as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because in thatsituation, the essential passions of the heart... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 pages
...interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature : chiefly, is far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition, the essential passions of the... | |
| 1808 - 596 pages
...situations interesting by tracing in them, truly, though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature ; chiefly as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement." Pref. p. vii. Were these volumes (the Lyrical Ballads, &c.) now before us for criticism, however we... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature : chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition, the essential passions of the... | |
| 1829 - 1008 pages
...common life) interesting, by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature, chiefly as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in astateof excitement," (let me take breath !) or, (as he says in another place,) " speaking in language... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature : chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the... | |
| James Montgomery - 1838 - 332 pages
...and situations from common life, and to relate and describe them throughout, as far as possible, in a selection of language really used by men ; and at...expletives which often render verse too heavy for endurance,-=»we may reasonably protest against the unqualified rejection of those graces of diction... | |
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