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. They seemed to be the very culture of the feelings,... John Stuart Mill: Autobiography, Essay on Liberty - Page 97by John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 468 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1874 - 596 pages
...poetry of Wordsworth and Scott. ' What made VĀ»rords\vorth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they expressed, not mere outward beauty,...joy, of sympathetic and imaginative pleasure, which could be shared in by all human beings ; which had no connexion with struggle or imperfection, but... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1873 - 344 pages
...does it more effectually than any poet. What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they expressed, not mere outward beauty,...joy, of sympathetic and imaginative pleasure, which could be shared in by all human beings ; which had no connexion with struggle or imperfection, but... | |
| 1874 - 804 pages
...happiness. Wordsworth's poems, on the contrary, "expressed not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, of thought coloured by feeling under the excitement...inward joy, of sympathetic and imaginative pleasure." Wordsworth taught him that there was real permanent happiness in tranquil contemplation ; and that... | |
| 1874 - 802 pages
...happiness. Wordsworth's poems, on the contrary, " expressed not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, of thought coloured by feeling under the excitement...inward joy, of sympathetic and imaginative pleasure." Wordsworth taught him that there was real permanent happiness in tranquil contemplation ; and that... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...does it more effectually than any poet. 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 colored by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. They seemed to be the very culture of the feelings... | |
| 1877 - 824 pages
...a medicine for my state of mind, was that they expressed states of feeling, and of thought colored by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. They seemed...joy, of sympathetic and imaginative pleasure, which could be shared in by all human beings."* In other words, all that any man has to do to be happy is... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1877 - 828 pages
..."a medicine for m,y state of mind, was that they expressed states of feeling, and of thought colored by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. They seemed...joy, of sympathetic and imaginative pleasure, which could be shared in by all human beings."* In other words, all that any man has to do to be happy is... | |
| 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
...I did not estimate myself at all. 52. 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 colored by feeling under the excitement of beauty. They seemed to be the very culture of the feelings... | |
| Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 614 pages
...mind was that they expressed not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought colored by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. They seemed...joy, of sympathetic and imaginative pleasure which could be shared in by all human beings, which had no connection with struggle or imperfection, but... | |
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