 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,...  The Quarterly Review - Sida 329redigerad av - 1832Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 sidor
...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, but as. they seem to exist to the senses and to the passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged principle prepare for the inexperienced... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 sidor
...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, but as they seem to exist to the senses and to the passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged principle prepare for the inexperienced... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1820 - 362 sidor
...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, but as they seem to exist to the senses and to the passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged principle prepare for the inexperienced... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 sidor
...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, but as they seem to exist to the senses and to the passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged principle prepare for the inexperienced... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 sidor
...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, 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 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
...might be blended with those of the philosopher, — ' Recompensing well The strength they borrow with the grace they lend.' As the appropriate business...Still, however, we hope to see at least the dawning of thai better day, when works of science shall be accurate and popular at one and the same time, —... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1832 - 648 sidor
...Wordsworth, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear to be, — not as they exists in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses...there might, no doubt, be some danger of a rather iporious offspring rising upon us, were any sei ence of observation thus ' married to immortal verse.'... | |
 | 1845 - 458 sidor
...contradistinction to philosophy or science, is " to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear ; not as they exist in 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 difficult to tell... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1847 - 606 sidor
...appropriate employment, her privilege, her duty, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear ; not as they exist in 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, to assert that... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 sidor
...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, but as they seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged obligation prepare for the inexperienced!... | |
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