 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 648 pages
..." was generally chosen " for the matter of his poetry, " because in that condition the essen: tial passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are under less restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because in that condition... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1899 - 346 pages
...situations from common life. Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better...in which they can attain their maturity . . . and are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature. ' ' Wordsworth discarded, in theory,... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 pages
...stated as follows : i. Subjects are to be taken from rustic or common life, "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 plainer and more emphatic language." 2. The language of common... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - 1900 - 358 pages
..." humble and rustic " life for his characters because' (he took down the book) '" 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";—and here again, in the... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1909 - 250 pages
...ideas in a state of excitement. 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 that condition... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 328 pages
...in a state of excitement. 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 under less restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language; because in that condition... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1904 - 382 pages
...Lyrical Ballads ( 1 800) : " 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." I. 703. " trotting brooks.... | |
 | Georg Morris Cohen Brandes - 1905 - 392 pages
...uncultivatedness with a feeling of superiority, but because he believed that in that condition of life 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 language. He was of opinion that in that condition our... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 pages
...stated as follows: i. Subjects are to be taken from rustic or common life, " 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 plainer and more emphatic language." 2. The language of common... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1905 - 292 pages
...in a state of excitement. Humble .and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they , I can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language... | |
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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... 
