 | William Wordsworth - 1836 - 368 pages
...under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because in that condition of life our elementary feelings co-exist in a state of greater...simplicity, and, consequently, may be more accurately con^ templated, and more forcibly communicated ; because the manners of rural life germinate from those... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1816 - 594 pages
...under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language : because in that condition of life our elementary feelings co-exist in a state of greater...life germinate from those elementary feelings, and form the necessary character of rural occupations, are more easily comprehended, and are more durable:... | |
 | 1839 - 538 pages
...maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language, — and because our -elementary feelings. co-exist in a state of greater...accurately contemplated, and more forcibly communicated." (Preface.) Believing that the heart might be better studied, when divested of its artificial and arbitrary,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...of life our elementary feelings co-exist in a slate of greater simphcily. and, consequently, may be ath fed And forma of nature." Now it is clear to me, that in the most interesting of the poems, in which the author... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1840 - 370 pages
...under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because in that condition of life our elementary feelings co-exist in a state of greater...because the manners of rural life germinate from those ele• mentary feelings, and, from the necessary character of rural occupations, are more easily comprehended,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 414 pages
...and blood, while he leads him through every sphere of existence." Wordsworth also chose rural life, " because in that condition, the passions of men are...with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature." I fear that more of the poet than the philosopher is apparent in this sentiment: or, if Wordsworth... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 426 pages
...and blood, while he leads him through every sphere of existence." Wordsworth also chose rural life, " because in that condition, the passions of men are...with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature." I fear that more of the poet than the philosopher is apparent in this sentiment : or, if Wordsworth... | |
 | 1846 - 602 pages
...... in that condition of life our elementary feelings coexist in a state of greater simplicity . . . because the manners of rural life germinate from those elementary feelings . .. . and because, in that condition, the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 pages
...tions, are more easily comprehended, and are more cntH.eniing the desirable influences of low and rustic durable; and, lastly, because in that condition the passions of men are incorporate«! with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature." 14 о w it is clear to me, that in... | |
 | 1846 - 610 pages
...... in that condition of life our elementary feelings coexist in a state of greater simplicity . . . because the manners of rural life germinate from those elementary feelings . . . and because, in that condition, the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms... | |
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Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because... 
