 Humble and rustic life was generally chosen because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because in...  Prose Writings of Wordsworthby William Wordsworth - 1893 - 198 pagesSnippet view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1834 - 360 pages
...find a better soil, in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because in that...germinate from those elementary feelings, and, from the necessary character of rural occupations, are more easily comprehended, and are more durable ; and,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1836 - 368 pages
...heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because in that...simplicity, and, consequently, may be more accurately con^ templated, and more forcibly communicated ; because the manners of rural life germinate from those... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1816 - 594 pages
...heart find a better soil in .which they can attain maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language : because in that...life germinate from those elementary feelings, and form the necessary character of rural occupations, are more easily comprehended, and are more durable:... | |
 | 1839 - 538 pages
...maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language, — and because our -elementary feelings. co-exist in a state of greater...accurately contemplated, and more forcibly communicated." (Preface.) Believing that the heart might be better studied, when divested of its artificial and arbitrary,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1840 - 370 pages
...heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because in that...because the manners of rural life germinate from those ele• mentary feelings, and, from the necessary character of rural occupations, are more easily comprehended,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...find a better soil, in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and S[ieak a l should cry, Beware ! Beware ! Hi) flashing eyes,...floating hair ! Weave a circle round him thrice, And slate of greater simphcily. and, consequently, may be accurately contemplated, and more forcibly communicated... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 602 pages
...furnished by any poet since the days of Dryden). " Humble and rustic life was generally chosen," he says, " because ... in that condition of life our elementary...feelings coexist in a state of greater simplicity . . . because the manners of rural life germinate from those elementary feelings . .. . and because,... | |
 | 1846 - 610 pages
...furnished by any poet since the days of Dryden). " Humble and rustic life was generally chosen," he eays, " because ... in that condition of life our elementary...feelings coexist in a state of greater simplicity . . . because the manners of rural life germinate from those elementary feelings . . . and because,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1847 - 380 pages
...find a better soil, in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because in that...germinate from those elementary feelings ; and from the necessary character of rural occupations are more easily comprehended, and are more durable ; and lastlj*,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 pages
...find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are leas under restraint, and sj»?Ak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because in that...simplicity, and, consequently, may be more accurately contemplatt-J. and more forcibly communicated ; because tb~ manners of rural life germinate from those... | |
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