 | William Minto - English literature - 1894 - 440 pages
...[the " Lyrical Ballads "] was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate and describe them, throughout, as far as was possible,...throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, wlttreby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect ; and further, and above... | |
 | Book collecting - 1925 - 914 pages
...Jewett's stories were purposed, as Wordsworth's poems were, to show "incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout,...and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain coloring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect;... | |
 | William Minto - English literature - 1895 - 436 pages
...from common life, and to relate and describe them, throughout, as far as was possible, in a teleetion of language really used by men, and, at the same time,...throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whtreby ordinary thingt should be presented to the mind in an unvtunl atptet ; and further, and above... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1896 - 692 pages
...principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout,...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 648 pages
...preface to the second edition of "Lyrical Ballads," " was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout,...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect ; and further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 654 pages
...preface to the second edition of "Lyrical Ballads," " was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout,...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect ; and further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing... | |
 | R. McWilliam - English literature - 1897 - 176 pages
...given : The principal object proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them throughout, as...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect. Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition the essential passions... | |
 | David Herschell Edwards - English poetry - 1897 - 384 pages
...was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, as far as possible, in a selection of language really used by...should be presented to the mind in an unusual way." The greatest poets of the world are ."aid to be popular by a kind of sublime commonplace. They transform... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Poetry - 1898 - 152 pages
...poet himself answers that his principal object " was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them throughout, as...and at the same time to throw over them a certain coloring of imagination whereby ordinary tilings should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect;... | |
 | W. H. Venable, LL. D. - 1898 - 152 pages
...poet himself answers that his principal object " was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them throughout, as...and at the same time to throw over them a certain coloring of imagination whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect;... | |
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Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination,... 
