 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
 | 1845 - 458 sider
...thing. It has been said that the business of poetry, in contradistinction to philosophy or science, is " to treat of things not as they are, but as they...themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses and the passions." But it is difficult to say what things are except by what they seem to us, and it is... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 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,...seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged obligation prepare for the inexperienced! what temptations... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 sider
...operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry, (which, nevertheless, if genuine, ¡8 as permanent as pure science,) her appropriate employment,...exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the tenta, and to the pattioru. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged obligation prepare for... | |
 | 1845 - 452 sider
...thing. It has been said that the business of poetry, in contradistinction to philosophy or science, is " to treat of things not as they are, but as they...exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses.and the passions." But it is difficult to say what things are except by what they seem to us,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 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,...of things not as they are, but as they appear; not ae they exist in themselves, but as they teem to exist to the untes, and to the passion». What a world... | |
 | 1908 - 678 sider
...Westminster. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. x. 247). — Is this what MM requires in his first query ? " The appropriate business of poetry (which nevertheless,...her appropriate employment, her privilege and her •fluty, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear ; not as they exist in themselves,... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1850 - 260 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." It is, however, no depreciation of poetry to assert that its province is not to treat... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 776 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,...appear ; not as they exist in themselves, but as they teem to exist to the unset and to the passions. What a world of delusion does thu acknowledged principle... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 388 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,...her appropriate employment, her privilege and her >/nf:/, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear; not as they exist in themselves,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 472 sider
...the minds of men of all ages, AA 2 chiefly proceed; but upon Youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry, (which, nevertheless,...privilege and her duty, is to treat of things not as they ore, but as they appear; not as they exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses,... | |
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