 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,...  Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the ... - Side 343af William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 524 sider
...And on his willows hung each muse's lyre. • "The appropriate business of poetry," says Wordsworth, "her privilege, and her duty, is to treat of things...they appear ; not as they exist in themselves, but as tlvsy seem to exist to the senses and passions."3 Since genuine emotions arc often founded upon fancies,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1892 - 214 sider
...operates with peculiar force. EThe appropriate business of poetry, (which, never1 theless, ngenuine, is as permanent as pure science,) her appropriate...things not as they are, but as they appear; not as 1 10 they exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions) What a... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1893 - 394 sider
...chiefly proceed ; but upon Youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry, (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged obligation prepare for the inexperienced ! what temptations to go astray are here held forth for them... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1898 - 263 sider
...is the history or science of feelings.' ‘The appropriate business of poetry,' he says elsewhere, ‘(which nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...they appear; not as they exist in themselves, but ailiey seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions.' The psychological aspect of the several Ballads,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1904 - 316 sider
...rubber tree. " Wordsworth may after all assist us here — "The appropriate business of poetry ... is to treat of things not as they are but as they...seem to exist to the senses and to the passions." And the illusion in question is really, for many persons, an illusion of sense. It is curious to observe... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1905 - 292 sider
...chiefly proceed ; but upon Youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged obligation prepare for the inexperienced ! what temptations to go astray are here held forth for them... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1907 - 336 sider
...virtue in an almost ; and (2) that it is the business of poetry to represent things 'not as they nre, but as they appear; not as they exist in themselves, but as they teem to exist to the senses and to the passions ' (WORDSWORTH, Essay Supplementary to Preface, 1815).... | |
 | 1910 - 482 sider
...chiefly proceed; but upon Youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...to the senses, and to the passions. What a world of 327 delusion does this acknowledged obligation prepare for the inexperienced ! what temptations to... | |
 | 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 - 638 sider
...to the senses, and to the passions. What a world of 327 delusion does this acknowledged obligation prepare for the inexperienced ! what temptations to go astray are here held forth for them whose thoughts have been little disciplined by the understanding, and whose feelings revolt from... | |
 | Sarat Chandra Roy (Rai Bahadur) - 1912 - 684 sider
...as Wordsworth himself has denned the function of the poet : — The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty, isto treat of things not as they are, but as they appear, not as they exist in themselves, but as they... | |
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