 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.  Nineteenth Century and After - Page 2701877Full view - About this book
 | 1874 - 596 pages
...V»rords\vorth'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, which I was in quest of. In them I seemed to draw... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1873 - 344 pages
...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, which I was in quest of. In them I seemed to draw... | |
 | 1879 - 684 pages
...this, and was at first not a little perplexed about it .... The discovery at length was made . . . The ' perennial' happiness for which men are to live,...most accurate and complete description he can give us .jf the one thing by which all conduct is to be tested, and the hope of attaining which is to make... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1880 - 278 pages
...men are to live, which is to make life desirable " when all the greater evils .... shall have hcen removed," consists, he tells us, "in states of feeling, and of thought colored by feeling, under the excitement of beauty." This is the only description, the most accurate... | |
 | Frederic William Henry Myers - 1881 - 204 pages
...state of mind," he says, in his Autobiography, " 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 which I was in quest of. In them I seemed to draw... | |
 | William Angus Knight - 1889 - 550 pages
...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, which I was in quest of. In them I seemed to draw... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 1016 pages
...made his 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. 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, under the excitement of beauty. They seemed to be the very culture of the feelings of which he was in quest. It was true that Wordsworth,... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1892 - 220 pages
...and found in his poems a medicine for his mind in that " they expressed not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. "They seemed," he continues, "to be the very culture of the feelings which I was in quest of. ... I... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1892 - 220 pages
...and found in his poems a medicine for his mind in that " they expressed not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. " They seemed," he continues, " to be the very culture of the feelings which I was in quest of. ...... | |
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