| 1799 - 614 sidor
...the advertisement prefixed, 'chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure.' Though we hnve been extremely entertained with the fancy, the facility, and (in general) the sentiments,... | |
| 1816 - 802 sidor
...U. T terest the human mind.":): Yet, surely, it will not follow tint " the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." To afford pleasure, poetry must call imagination to the aid of reason : fancy must create, or at least... | |
| 1904 - 926 sidor
...majority of the "Lyrical Ballads" "were written chiefly to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." Wordsworth's experiment failed; or rather it was never carried out. When once he had owned that metre... | |
| 1851 - 650 sidor
...that the poems were written " chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." At this announcement all the respectable people took h're, that is, all who condescended to notice... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1851 - 684 sidor
...that the poems were written " chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." At this announcement all the respectable people took fire, that is, all who condescended to notice... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1870 - 342 sidor
...reader that " they were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." In his preface to the second edition, in two volumes, Wordsworth already found himself forced to shift... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 346 sidor
...reader that " they were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." In his preface to the second edition, in two volumes, Wordsworth already found himself forced to shift... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 348 sidor
...reader that " they were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." In his preface to the second edition, in two volumes, Wordsworth already found himself forced to shift... | |
| William Angus Knight - 1879 - 456 sidor
...in which it entered in, nor, on the other hand, artificialised by its presence there — but recast in a form of ideal grace, the 'naturalness ' of its...the verge of a bald literalism ; and it was easy for the critics to hold up to ridicule the ' tub ' of the blind boy, and the ' swollen ancles ' of Simon... | |
| 1984 - 464 sidor
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