 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 pages
...forced to extend its services far, beyond the point to which philosophy would have confined them. It is a metaphor, taken from a passive sense of the human...essence not passive, — to intellectual acts and operations. The word, imagination, has been overstrained, from impulses honourable to mankind, to meet... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 pages
...forced to extend its services far beyond the point to which philosophy would have confined them. It is a metaphor, taken from a passive sense of the human...essence not passive, — to intellectual acts and operations. The word, imagination, has been overstrained, from impulses honourable to mankind, to meet... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 362 pages
...forced to extend its services far beyond the point to which philosophy would have confined them. It is a metaphor, taken from a passive sense of the human...essence not passive, — to intellectual acts and operations. The word, imagination, has been overstrained, from impulses honourable to mankind, to meet... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...forced to extend its services far beyond the point to which philosophy would have confined them. It is a metaphor, taken from a passive sense of the human...essence not passive, — to intellectual acts and operations. The word, imagination, has been overstrained, from impulses honourable to mankind, to meet... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1840 - 376 pages
...forced to extend its services far beyond the pomt to which philosophy would have confined them. It is a metaphor, taken from a, passive sense of the human body, and transferred to things which are in then- essence not passive, — to intellectual acts and operations. The word, Imagination, has been... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...forced to extend its services far beyond the point to which philosophy would have confined them. It is a metaphor, taken from a passive sense of the human...things which are in their essence not passive,— to intelleetual act» and operationz. The word, Imagination, has been overstrained, from impulses honourable... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 pages
...forced to extend its services far beyond the point to which philosophy would have confined them. It is a metaphor, taken from a passive sense of the human...in their essence not passive, — to intellectual arts and operation». The word, Imagination, has been overstrained, from impulses honourable to mankind,... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...forced to extend its services far beyond the point to which philosophy would have confined them. It is a metaphor taken from a. passive sense of the human...essence not passive, — to intellectual acts and operations. As nations decline in productive and creative power, they value themselves upon a presumed... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 472 pages
...beyond the point to which philosophy would have confined them. It is a metaphor, taken from a paaive sense of the human body, and transferred to things which are in their essence not passive,—to intellectual acts and operations. The word, Imagination, has been overstrained, from... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1859 - 386 pages
...forced to extend its services far beyond the point to which philosophy would have confined them. It is a metaphor, taken from a passive sense of the human body, and transferred to tilings\ which are in their essence not passive, — to intellectual acts and operations. The word... | |
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It is a metaphor, taken from a passive sense of the human body, and transferred to things which are in their essence not passive — to intellectual acts and operations. 
