 Seasons" does not contain a single new image of external nature; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which it can be .inferred that the eye of the Poet had been steadily fixed upon his object, much less that his feelings had urged him to work upon...  Points at Issue and Some Other Points - Page 126by Henry Augustin Beers - 1904 - 273 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 428 pages
...to possess it, ever since we read the surprise expressed by the great master of living song, that " excepting a passage or two in the Windsor Forest of...not contain a single new image of external nature." * In vain, however, did we inquire in the bookshops for the volume of this charming and most original... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 pages
...in verse, Thomson pledged himself to treat his subject as became a Poet. Now it is remarkable that, excepting a passage or two in the Windsor Forest of...not contain a single new image of external nature ; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which it can be inferred that the eye of the Poet had been... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 pages
...in verse, Thomson pledged himself to treat his subject as became a Poet. Now it is remarkable that, excepting a passage or two in the Windsor Forest of...not contain a single new image of external nature ; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which it can be inferred that the eye of the Poet had been... | |
 | 1837 - 886 pages
...Rydal Mount. Words worth has immortalized her in the following sentence : — " It is remarkable that, excepting a passage or two in the Windsor Forest of...not contain a single new image of external nature." She was the daughter of Sir William Kingsmill of Sidmonton, in the county of Southampton, maid of honour... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1820 - 362 pages
...himself to treat his subject as became a Poet. Now it is remarkable that, excepting a passage or two hj the Windsor Forest of Pope, and some delightful pictures...not contain a single new image of external nature ; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which it can be inferred that the eye of the Poet had been... | |
 | John Clare - 1820 - 254 pages
...new and interesting appearances. There is some merit in all this, .for Wordsworth asserts, " that, excepting a passage or two in the Windsor Forest of...publication of the Paradise Lost, and the Seasons [60 years], does not contain a single new image of external nature." But CLARE has no idea of excelling... | |
 | 1822 - 880 pages
...prosaic man, — - " a primrose by a river's brim, A yellow primrose is to him, And it is nothing more," the Seasons, does not contain a single new image of external nature, and scarcely presents a familiar one, from which it can be inferred that the eye of the Poet had been... | |
 | Alexander Dyce - 1825 - 472 pages
...remain unpublished. " It is remarkable that, excepting a passage or two in the Windsor Forest of Po^e, and some delightful pictures in the Poems of Lady...not contain a single new image of external nature." — WORDSWORTH (Essay in hit Miscellaneous Poems). The Atheist and the Acorn. METHINKS the world is... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...excepting the nocturnal Reverie of Lady Winchelsea, and a passage or two in the Windsor Forest of Pope, the Poetry of the period intervening between the publication...not contain a single new image of external nature; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which it can be inferred that the eye of the Poet had been... | |
 | 1828 - 454 pages
...in the county of Southampton. " It is remarkable," says Mr Wordsworth, as quoted by Mr Dyce, " that excepting a passage or two in the Windsor Forest of...not contain a single new image of external nature." — Essay in •his Miscellaneous Poems. Some of these "delightful pictures" are furnished us by Mr... | |
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