 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - Počet stránok 578
...situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the... | |
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, John Heminge, Henry Condell, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Hippolyte Taine - 1910 - Počet stránok 638
...situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1911 - Počet stránok 296
...common life interesting11 by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature : chiefly as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. I^ow and rustic life was generally chosen because in that situation12 the essential passions of the... | |
 | Elias Hershey Sneath - 1912 - Počet stránok 344
...situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature : chiefly as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of... | |
 | 1904 - Počet stránok 1036
...higher measure by tracing in the experiences of the lowly the primary laws of human nature, especially "as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement." Wordsworth sought to redeem for poetic treatment what had hitherto been thought the waste places of... | |
 | Francis Cotterell Hodgson - 1913 - Počet stránok 464
...situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature ; chiefly, as far as regards the manner in...we associate ideas in a state of excitement." Now I think we shall agree that, while this account of the nature of poetry is not inadequate as a justification... | |
 | 1915 - Počet stránok 536
...situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement." This marks a great advance upon the sacred doctrine of Pope thatTrue Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd,... | |
 | 1915 - Počet stránok 538
...situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement." This marks a great advance upon the sacred doctrine of Pope thatTrue Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd,... | |
 | Terrot Reaveley Glover - 1915 - Počet stránok 346
...common life, tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature : chiefly as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement." His aim "is to follow the fluxes and refluxes of the mind when agitated by the great and simple affections... | |
 | Caleb Thomas Winchester - 1916 - Počet stránok 330
...situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature, chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Humble and rustic life was usually chosen because in that condition the essential passions of the heart... | |
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... the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. 
