 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 272 pages
...Mother - - - - - - 144 The Ancient Mariner ----- 155 Lines written above Tintern Abbey --- aos PREFACE. The first Volume of these Poems has already been submitted to general perusal. It wds published, as an experiment which, I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...bombastic lines as the very quintessence of excellencecould not at first relish productions composed of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation, which is the very foundation of the system of Mr. Wordsworth : they who had been used to hear the most... | |
 | England - 1829 - 1000 pages
...by quotations from his own works. First, he has not adhered to the best parts of his theory. That " a selection of the real language of men, in a state of vivid sensation," may produce a most happy effect, when transferred to the poet s page, I havi before proved by a reference... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 416 pages
...by quotations from his own works. First, he has not adhered to the best parts of his theory. That " a selection of the real language of men, in a state of vivid sensation," may produce a most happy effect, when transferred to the poet's page, I have before proved by a reference... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 430 pages
...by quotations from his own works. First, he has not adhered to the best parts of his theory. That " a selection of the real language of men, in a state of vivid sensation," may produce a most happy effect, when transferred to the poet's page, I have before proved by a reference... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 486 pages
...himself described his object as being to ascertain how far the purposes of poefry might be fulfilled " by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of...real language of men in a state of vivid sensation." It might, perhaps, be possible to defend this notion by the aid of certain assumptions as to what is... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...transferred to the end of the Volumes as having little of a special application to their contents.] THE first Volume of these Poems has already been submitted...ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a seleetion of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation, that sort of pleasure and that... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1847 - 382 pages
...say, the acrimonious passions, with which the controversy has been conducted by ths assailants." 6 [" The first volume of these Poems has already been submitted to general perusal. It was published as nn experiment. which I hoped might be of some use to ascertain how I'.ir, by fitting to metrical arrangement... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 770 pages
...[The second edition, with an additional volume and the preface, was published in 1800.—Ed.] J [" The first volume of these Poems has already been submitted...ascertain how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a aelection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation, that sort of pleasure and that... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1854 - 388 pages
...transferred to the end of the Volumes, as having little of a special application to their contents. THE first .Volume of these Poems has already been...published as an experiment, which, I hoped, might he of some use, to ascertain how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language... | |
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I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation... 
