 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...language, when expressing his feelings for his own gratification, or that of men like himself. But Poets do not write for Poets alone, but for men. Unless...therefore we are advocates for that admiration which depends upon ignorance, and that pleasure which arises from hearing what we do not understand, the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 pages
...language, when expressing his feelings for his own gratification, or that of men like himself. But Poets do not write for Poets alone, but for men. Unless...therefore we are advocates for that admiration which depends. upon ignorance, and that pleasure which arises from hearing what we do not understand, the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 pages
...peculiar language whenexpressing his feelings for his own gratification, or that of men like himself. But Poets do not write for Poets alone, but for men. Unless therefore we are advocates for that adtnrration which depends upon ignorance, and that pleasure which arises from hearing what we do not... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...peculiar language when expressing his feelings for his own gratification, or that of men like himself. But Poets do not write for Poets alone, but for men. Unless...therefore we are advocates for that admiration which depends upon ignorance, and that pleasure which arises from hearing what we do not understand, the... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...feelings for his own gratification, or that of men like himself. But Poets do not write for Poets ajone, but for men. Unless therefore we are advocates for that admiration which depends upon ignorance, and that pleasure which arises from hearing what we do not understand, the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...advocates for that admiration which depends upon ignorance, and that pleasure which arises from bearing what we do not understand, the Poet must descend from...height, and, in order to excite rational sympathy, he must express himself as other men express themselves. To this it may be added, that while he is... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1836 - 368 pages
...peculiar language when expressing his feelings for his own gratification, or that of men like himself. But Poets do not write for Poets alone, but for men. Unless...height ; and, in order to excite rational sympathy, he must express himself as other men express themselves. To this it may be added, that while he is... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1816 - 594 pages
...being the characteristical attributes of the poetical character. Our author justly observes, that ' poets do not write for poets alone, but for men. Unless,...therefore, we are advocates for that admiration which depends upon ignorance, and that pleasure which arises from hearing what we do riot understand, the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 pages
...peculiar language when expressing his feelings for his own gratification, or that of men like himself. But Poets do not write for Poets alone, but for men. Unless...height ; and, in order to excite rational sympathy, he must express himself as other men express themselves. To this it may be added, that while he is... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...peculiar language when expressing his feelings for his own gratification, or that of men like himself. But Poets do not write for Poets alone, but for men. Unless...height ; and, in order to excite rational sympathy, he must express himself as other men express themselves. To this it may be added, that while he is... | |
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Poets do not write for Poets alone, but for men. Unless therefore we are advocates for that admiration which subsists upon ignorance, and that pleasure which arises from hearing what we do not understand, the Poet must descend from this supposed height... 
