The appropriate business of poetry, (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent as pure science,) her appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear; not as they exist in themselves,... The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth - Side xviiredigeret af - 2003 - 295 siderBegrænset visning - Om denne bog
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 626 sider
...borrow with the grace they lend.' As the appropriate business of poetry, according to Mr. Wordsworth, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear to be, — not as they exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses and the passions... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 sider
...chiefly proceed ; but upon Youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business ofpoetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine is as permanent as...they seem to exist to the senses and to the passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged principle prepare for the inexperienced ! what temptations... | |
| William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 sider
...chiefly proceed ; but upon Youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business ofpoetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine is as permanent as...they seem to exist to the senses and to the passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged principle prepare for the inexperienced ! what temptations... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1820 - 362 sider
...in the minds of men of all ages, chiefly proceed ; but upon Youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless,...they seem to exist to the senses and to the passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged principle prepare for the inexperienced ! what temptations... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 sider
...in the minds of men of all ages, chiefly proceed ; but upon Youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless,...they seem to exist to the senses and to the passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged principle prepare for the inexperienced ! what temptations... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 sider
...art, in the minds of men of all ages, chie6y proceed ; but upon Youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless,...exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the sense* and to the passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged principle prepare for the... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 614 sider
...poetry, according to Mr. Wordsworth, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear to be, — not as they exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses and the passions of mankind, — there might, no doubt, be some danger of a rather spurious offspring rising... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 618 sider
...borrow jvith the grace they lend.' As the appropriate business of poetry, according to Mr. Wordsworth, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear to be, — not as they exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses and the passions... | |
| 1885 - 614 sider
...' The appropriate business of Poetry,' says Wordsworth, ' her privilege, and her duty, is to treat things not as they are, but as they appear; not as...they seem to exist to the senses and to the passions' The most prosaic minds can apprehend things as they are ; the attributes with which passion and feeling... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1847 - 606 sider
...early prefaces, " that the appropriate business of poetry, her appropriate employment, her privilege, her duty, is to treat of things not as they are, but...themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses and the passions." This, however, is no depreciation of poetry, though at first glance it may look so,... | |
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