 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 pages
...object, then, which I proposed to myself in these Poems was to chuse incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout,...language really used by men ; and, at the same time, ta throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented... | |
 | 1808 - 596 pages
...that " his principal object was to chuse incidents and situations from common life, and to relate and describe them throughout, as far as was possible,...really used by men ; and at the same time to throw upon them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...then, which I proposed to myself in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from com365 tnon life, and to relate or describe them, throughout,...same time, to throw over them a certain colouring 6f imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way ; and, further,... | |
 | England - 1829 - 1008 pages
...preface, that it has been his object, not only to choose incidents and situations from common life, but " at the same time to throw over them a certain colouring...should be presented to the mind in an unusual way." That he has succeeded in presenting ordinary things to the mind in an unusual way,/ few persons will... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...then, which I proposed to myself in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout,...unusual way ; and, further, and above all, to make those incidents and situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1832 - 378 pages
...then, which I proposed to myself in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout,...possible in a selection of language really used by men, y 3 and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1833 - 528 pages
...choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate and describe them throughout, as far as possible, in a selection of language really used by men ; and at the same time to throw upon them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1833 - 348 pages
...situations from common life, and to relate and describe them throughout, as far as possible, in ;>. selection of language really used by men ; and at the same time to throw upon them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1836 - 368 pages
...principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout,...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 342 pages
...the language commonly used by men ; at the same time, investing them with a certain colouring of the imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way ; and it was his aim further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting, by tracing... | |
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Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination,... 
