 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 272 pages
...property of all good poetry, namely good sense ; but it has necessarily cut me off from a large portion of phrases and figures of speech which from father to son have long been regarded as the common inheritance of Poets. I have also thought it expedient to restrict myself... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...of all good Poetry, namely, good sense; but it has necessarily cut me oft' from a large portion of phrases and figures of speech, which, from father to son have long been regarded as the common inheritance, of Poets. I have also thought it expedient to restrict myself... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ballads - 1805 - 284 pages
...of all good poetry, namely good sense j but it has necessarily cut me oft" from a large portion of phrases and figures of speech which from father to son have long been regarded as the common inheritance of Poets. I have also thought it expedient to restrict myself... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...property of all good poetry, namely, good sense ; but it has necessarily cut me offfrom a large portion of phrases and figures of speech which from father to son have long been regarded as the common inheritance of Poets. I have also thought it expedient to restrict myself... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...property of all good poetry, namely, good sense ; but it has necessarily cut me offfrom a large portion of phrases and figures of speech which from father to son have long been regarded as the common inheritance of Poets. I have also thought it expedient to restrict myself... | |
 | England - 1829 - 1008 pages
...reject " what is usually called poetic diction," and to " cut himself oft' from a large portion of phrases and figures of speech, which, from father to son, have long been regarded as the common inheritance of poets." I own that I can see nothing very original in these... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...of all good poetry, namely, good sense ; but it has necessarily cut me off from a large portion of phrases and figures of speech which from father to son have long been regarded as the common inheritance of Poets. I have also thought it expedient to restrict myself... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1840 - 522 pages
...proceed to say something of the diction of poetry. Words are the instruments of the poet; they are ihe tools with which he works. We think that Mr. Wordsworth...figures of speech which from father to son have long зееп regarded as the common inheritance of poets.' Such conventional forms of expression at last... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 426 pages
...to reject " what is usually called poetic diction," and to " cut himself off from a large portion of phrases and figures of speech, which, from father to son, have long been regarded as the common inheritance of poets." I own that I can see nothing very original in these... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 414 pages
...to reject " what is usually called poetic diction," and to " cut himself off from a large portion of phrases and figures of speech, which, from father to son, have long been regarded as the common inheritance of poets." I own that I can see nothing very original in these... | |
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... a large portion of phrases and figures of speech which from father to son have long been regarded as the common inheritance of Poets. I have also thought it expedient to restrict myself still further, having abstained from the use of many expressions,... 
