 The appropriate business of poetry, (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent as pure science,) her appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear ; not as they exist in themselves,...  Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the ... - Sida 343efter William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 626 sidor
...borrow with the grace they lend.' As the appropriate business of poetry, according to Mr. Wordsworth, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear to be, — not as they exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses and the passions... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 sidor
...chiefly proceed ; but upon Youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...what temptations to go astray are here held forth for them whose thoughts have been little disciplined by the understanding, and whose feelings revolt from... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 sidor
...chie6y proceed ; but upon Youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the sense* and to the passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged principle prepare for the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 sidor
...treat of things not as they are, hnt as thry appear; not as they exist in themselves, hnt as tliey teem to exist to the senses and to the passions. What a world of delnsion does this acknowledged principle prepare for the inexperienced! what temptations to go astray... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 614 sidor
...poetry, according to Mr. Wordsworth, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear to be, — not as they exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses and the passions of mankind, — there might, no doubt, be some danger of a rather spurious offspring rising... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 618 sidor
...borrow jvith the grace they lend.' As the appropriate business of poetry, according to Mr. Wordsworth, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear to be, — not as they exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses and the passions... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1837 - 376 sidor
...chiefly proceed ; but upon Youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry, (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged obligation prepare for the inexperienced! what temptations to go astray are here held forth for them... | |
 | 1885 - 614 sidor
...' The appropriate business of Poetry,' says Wordsworth, ' her privilege, and her duty, is to treat things not as they are, but as they appear; not as...they seem to exist to the senses and to the passions' The most prosaic minds can apprehend things as they are ; the attributes with which passion and feeling... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1847 - 606 sidor
...early prefaces, " that the appropriate business of poetry, her appropriate employment, her privilege, her duty, is to treat of things not as they are, but...themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses and the passions." This, however, is no depreciation of poetry, though at first glance it may look so,... | |
 | 1845 - 458 sidor
...thing. It has been said that the business of poetry, in contradistinction to philosophy or science, is " to treat of things not as they are, but as they...themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses and the passions." But it is difficult to say what things are except by what they seem to us, and it is... | |
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