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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... "
Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and ... - Page 166
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1898 - 440 pages
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Lyrical Ballads,: With Other Poems. In Two Volumes, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - 1800 - 270 pages
...ideas in a state of excitement. Low and rustic life was generally chosen because in that situation 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 in that situation...
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The Port Folio, Volume 6

Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1811 - 702 pages
...doubtful, that the language of low and rustic life ought to be preferred, because, in his opinion, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their matu. rity, and because in that condition of life our elementary feelings co-exist in a state of greater...
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Lyrical ballads, with other poems [including some by S.T. Coleridge]. From ...

William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...ideas in a state of excitement. Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because in thatsituation, 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 mora emphatic language; because, in that situation,...
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Lyrical Ballads: With Pastoral and Other Poems

William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...ideas in a state of excitement. Low 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 dieir maturity. are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because...
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Lyrical Ballads,: With Pastoral and Other Poems. In Two Volumes, Volume 1

William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ballads - 1805 - 284 pages
...ideas in a state of excitement. Low 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 in that condition...
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volume 1

Europe - 1810 - 560 pages
...doubtfuL-r^rthat the language pf Uw and rustic Jife ought to be preferred, because, in his opinion, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, and because in that condition of life our elementary feelings co-exist in a state of greater simplicity....
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The Edinburgh annual register, Volume 1, Part 2

1810 - 558 pages
...doubtful, — that the language of low and rustic life ought to be preferred, because, in his opinion, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity,and because in that condition of life our elementary feelings co-exist in a state of greater...
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Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the ...

William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...ideas in a state of excitement. Low 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 in that condition...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...ideas in a state of excitement. Low 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 in that condition...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 15

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1816 - 686 pages
...union, subordination, and regularity.' ' In the condition of low and rustic life,' says Words\vonh, ' the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity.' In the circumstances and feelings of this class he has found materials for poetry of a high order :...
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