 ... a certain colouring of 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, truly though not ostentatiously,...  The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Page 361808Full view - About this book
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English poetry - 1874 - 396 pages
...colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect ; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - Literary Criticism - 1875 - 374 pages
...colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 364 pages
...colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect ; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English literature - 1876 - 366 pages
...colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect ; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Theology - 1899 - 536 pages
...colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect ; and further and above all, to make these incidents...ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature : chiefly as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.' The theory of poetry as here... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1878 - 1112 pages
...imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect ; and, "urther, and above all, to make these incidents and situations...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition the essential passions ot the... | |
 | Great Britain - 1878 - 860 pages
...poetic pleasure; secondly (a motive first indicated in 1800), "to make the incidents of common life interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature."f Each poem, we are told, has a purpose, and in his Preface, in a passage since omitted, Wordsworth... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 pages
...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...truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws four nature : chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1882 - 642 pages
...make these incidents and situations interesting hy tracing in them, truly though not ostenta tiuusly, : # e g n s m { E Hum hle and rustic life was generally chosen hecause, in that condition, the essential passion of the... | |
 | William John Courthope - English literature - 1885 - 272 pages
...colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind injinjinusual aspect ; and further and above all, to make these incidents...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Here we have a compendious statement of the radical difference between the practice of Wordsworth and... | |
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