 | 1917 - 220 pages
...imagination, whereby ordinary things_ should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect ; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in them truely i_ .ostentatiously^ the primary laws of . our nature !,: chiefly as far as regards, the manner... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 986 pages
...ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect; and, further, and above all, 15 to make these incidents and situations interesting...rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condi20 tion, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their... | |
 | 1918 - 840 pages
...imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations...as far as regards the manner in which we associate William Lyon Phelps ideas in a state of excitement. Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because,... | |
 | Bliss Perry - 1920 - 430 pages
...Coleridge and Wordsworth upon this matter. The essential problem is suggested by Wordsworth's phrase "the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement." Is the "excitement," then, the chief factor in the selection and combination of images, and do the... | |
 | University of Wisconsin - 1922 - 300 pages
...principal object 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. . . . But speaking in less general language, it is to follow the fluxes and refluxes of the mind when... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1922 - 350 pages
...Keble, passim.' 1-3 The phrase 'passionate exercise of lofty thoughts' recalls the Preface of 1800: 'The manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.' 9-14 The frequent revision of this sonnet (see p. 201) indicates Wordsworth's uncertainty as to the... | |
 | Solomon Francis Gingerich - 1924 - 298 pages
...confirmed his belief in the idea of growth, accentuating its importance ; above all, it suggested to him "the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement." But Wordsworth's susceptibilities after all were greatest as poet, and his widest culture came from... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way; and, further, BOOK. VI The chief replied : "That post shall be...Troy, in arms renown'd, And Troy's proud dames, whose Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the... | |
 | Annie Edwards Powell Dodds - 1926 - 284 pages
...images," new " generalizations of truth or experience."2 So Wordsworth found a special significance in " the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement." There is still the presupposition that in this state of emotion the poet sees truly, but there is a... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1926 - 548 pages
...presented to the mind in an unusual aspect; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and 294 situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though...excitement. Humble and rustic life was generally chosen — The language, too, of these men has been adopted — because such men hourly communicate with 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... 
