 What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they expressed, not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty.  Harvard Classics: Volume 25 - Page 97by John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 468 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...first attracted to Wordsworth by his interest in natural scenery ; but " what made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind was that they expressed...outward beauty, but states of feeling and of thought colored by feeling under the excitement of beauty." It is remarkable that he nevertheless seems never... | |
 | 1879 - 684 pages
...life desirable ' when all the greater evils .... shall have been removed,' consists, he tells us, 'in states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty.' This is the only description, the most accurate and complete description he can give us .jf the one... | |
 | Henry Preble, Charles Pomeroy Parker - 1884 - 116 pages
...estimated myself highly nor lowly ; I did not estimate myself at all. 52. What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind was that they expressed...outward beauty, but states of feeling and of thought colored by feeling under the excitement of beauty. They seemed to be the very culture of the feelings... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 648 pages
...enrolled as fifth in the succession of the great English poets. — Ibid. What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind was that they expressed...outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought colored by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. They seemed to be the very culture of the feelings... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 614 pages
...enrolled as fifth in the succession of the great English poets. — Ibid. What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind was that they expressed...outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought colored by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. They seemed to be the very culture of the feelings... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 1016 pages
...described how important an event in his life was his first reading of Wordsworth. " What made his poems a medicine for my state of mind was that they expressed...coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. I needed to be made to feel that there was real permanent happiness in tranquil contemplation. Wordsworth... | |
 | William Leonard Courtney - 1889 - 124 pages
...Wordsworth, and found in his poems a real medicine for his mind. The reason was that these poems expressed states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling,...They seemed to be the very culture of the feelings of which he was in quest. It was true that Wordsworth, compared with the greatest poets, " might be... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 488 pages
...necessity, went to Wordsworth's poetry, and of the result says.: — " What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they expressed, not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, under the excitement of beauty. They seemed to be the very culture of the feelings which I was in quest... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 468 pages
...necessity, went to Wordsworth's poetry, and of the result says : — " What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they expressed, not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, under the excitement of beauty. They seemed to be the very culture of the feelings which I was in quest... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1889 - 608 pages
...for him at this period. " What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind," he writes, "was that they expressed, not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of UWHight colored by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. They seemed to be the very culture of the... | |
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