 The principal object, then, proposed in these 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...  The Literature of the Georgian Era - Page 187by William Minto - 1894 - 362 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...proposed to myself in these Poems was to chuse incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible,...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way ; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 pages
...proposed to myself in these Poems was to chuse incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible,...language really used by men ; and, at the same time, ta throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 pages
...to myself in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible,...things should be presented to the. mind in an unusual way; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1805 - 284 pages
...to myself in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible,...things should be presented to the mind in an. unusual way; and, further, and above all,. to> make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in... | |
 | 1808 - 596 pages
...their successors, he avowed, in his Preface to that work, that " his principal object was to chuse incidents and situations from common life, and to...really used by men ; and at the same time to throw upon them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...myself in i these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from com- . mon life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible,...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way ; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...myself in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from com365 tnon life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as •was possible,...same time, to throw over them a certain colouring 6f imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way ; and, further,... | |
 | 1829 - 1008 pages
...preface, that it has been his object, not only to choose incidents and situations from common life, but " at the same time to throw over them a certain colouring...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way." That he has succeeded in presenting ordinary things to the mind in an unusual way,/ few persons... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...to myself in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible,...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way ; and, further, and above all, to make those incidents and situations interesting by tracing in... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1832 - 378 pages
...to myself in these 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, y 3 and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary... | |
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