 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 272 pagina’s
...principal objed 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. Low and rustic life was generally chosen because in that situation the essential passions of the heart... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pagina’s
...was possible, in a selection of language really used by men ; and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition, the essential passions of the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 pagina’s
...was possible, in a selection of language really used by men ; and, at the same time, ta throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition, the essential passions of the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pagina’s
...interesting, by tracing in them, truly, though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our Nature j chieSjr as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because in thatsituation, the essential passions of the heart... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 pagina’s
...interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature : chiefly, is far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition, the essential passions of the... | |
 | 1808 - 596 pagina’s
...colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way ; Da I and further, and above all, to make these incidents...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement." Pref. p. vii. Were these volumes (the Lyrical Ballads, &c.) now before us for criticism, however we... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pagina’s
...selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring 6f imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition, the essential passions of the... | |
 | 1829 - 1008 pagina’s
...poet tells us) " further and above all, to make his incidents and situation (chosen from common life) interesting, by tracing in them, truly though not...regards the manner in which we associate ideas in astateof excitement," (let me take breath !) or, (as he says in another place,) " speaking in language... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pagina’s
...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way ; and, further, and above all, to make those incidents and situations interesting by tracing in...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1836 - 368 pagina’s
...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... | |
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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... 
