 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 272 pages
...principal objed then which I proposed to myself in these Poems was to make the incidents of common life interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously,...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
...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...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
...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...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
...principal object thea which I proposed to myself in these Poems was, to make the incidents of comnvm life 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1808 - 596 pages
...imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way ; Da I and further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations...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
...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...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, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...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...nature : chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which 1 we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because in... | |
 | 1829 - 1008 pages
...poet tells us) " further and above all, to make his incidents and situation (chosen from common life) interesting, by tracing in them, truly though not...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
...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way ; and, further, and above all, to make those incidents and situations interesting by tracing 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... | |
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... a certain 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 tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the... 
