 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 648 pages
...plainer and more emphatic language ; because in that condition of life our elementary feelings exist in a state of greater simplicity, and consequently...with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature." Wordsworth's deep sense of the worth of native manhood carries with it, almost of necessity, a faith... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 648 pages
...plainer and more emphatic language ; because in that condition of life our elementary feelings exist in a state of greater simplicity, and consequently...with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature." Wordsworth's deep sense of the worth of native manhood carries with it, almost of necessity, a faith... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1898 - 488 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 acinrately contemplated and more forcibly communicated ; because the manners of rural life germinate... | |
 | John Scott Clark - 1900 - 886 pages
...him will perish, but because too easily understood." — Lowell. " He chooses low and rustic life, because in that condition the passions of men are...with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature. . . . He has a predilection for a style the most remote from the false and showy splendor which he... | |
 | Georg Morris Cohen Brandes - 1905 - 392 pages
...are less under restraint, and speak a plainer language. He was of opinion that in that condition our elementary feelings co-exist in a state of greater...and consequently may be more accurately contemplated than in town life ; and he was also persuaded that constant association with the beautiful and permanent... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1907 - 348 pages
...because in that condition of life our elementary feelings coexist in a state of greater simpli- 30 city, and consequently may be more accurately contemplated,...are more easily comprehended, and are more durable ; 25 and lastly, because in that condition the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1907 - 348 pages
...because in that condition of life our elementary feelings coexist in a state of greater simpli- 3° city, and consequently may be more accurately contemplated, and more forcibly communicated ; because the -." t»- manners of rural life germinate from those elementary feelings ; and from the necessary character... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1908 - 316 pages
...under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because in that condition of life our elementary feelings coexist in a state of greater...with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature.' Now it is clear to me, that in the most interesting of the poems, in which the author is more or less... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1909 - 400 pages
...humble and rustic life form the most fitting subject of poetry, " because in that condition of life our elementary feelings co-exist in a state of greater...germinate from those elementary feelings ; . . . and lastly, because in that condition the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1909 - 396 pages
...forcibly communicated; because the manners of rural life germinate from those elementary feelings; . . . and lastly, because in that condition the passions...with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature." (Pref. to Lyrical Ballads.} In the last place, we have to inquire what is the relation of the matters... | |
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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... 
