 you represent him as having killed one of these birds on entering the South Sea, and that the tutelary spirits of these regions take upon them to avenge the crime.  Critical and ethical - Page 19by William Wordsworth - 1876Full view - About this book
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 488 pages
...largest sort of seafowl, some extending their wings twelve or thirteen feet. ' Suppose,' said I, ' you represent him as having killed one of these birds...ship by the dead men, but do not recollect that I had any108 ALFOXDEN. CiiAr. XI. thing more to do with the scheme of the poem. The gloss with which it was... | |
 | 1852 - 746 pages
...twelve or thirteen feet. ' Suppose,' said I, ' you represent him as having killed one of these hirds on entering the South Sea, and that the tutelary spirits...take upon them to avenge the crime.' The incident was thonght fit for the purpose, and adopted aecordingly. . . . We hegan the composition together on that,... | |
 | Biography - 1852 - 372 pages
...wanderings, as the coniequencea of that crime, that he should be represented as having killed an albatross, on entering the South Sea, and that the tutelary spirits of these regions should follow him, and avenge the crime. The navigation of the ship by the dead men was also a suggestion... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 318 pages
...largest sort of seafowl, some extending their wings twelve or thirteen feet. ' Suppose,' said I, ' you represent him as having killed one of these birds...entering the South Sea, and that the tutelary spirits of those regions take upon them to avenge the crime." The incident was thought fit for the purpose, and... | |
 | Frederic William Henry Myers - Authors, English - 1881 - 204 pages
...largest sort of sea-fowl, some extending their wings twelve or thirteen feet. 'Suppose,' said I, 'you represent him as having killed one of these birds...also suggested the navigation of the ship by the dead man, but do not recollect that I had anything more to do with the scheme of the poem. We began the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1882 - 414 pages
...largest sort of sea-fowl, some extending their wings twelve or fifteen feet "Suppose," said I, "you represent him as having killed one of these birds...ship by the dead men, but do not recollect that I had any thing more to do with the scheme of the poem. The Gloss with which it was subsequently accompanied... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1882 - 418 pages
...largest sort of sea-fowl, some extending their wings twelve or fifteen feet. "Suppose," said I, "you represent him as having killed one of these birds...ship by the dead men, but do not recollect that I had any thing more to do with the scheme of the poem. The Gloss with which it was subsequently accompanied... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill - 1884 - 250 pages
...largest sort of sea -fowl, some extending their wings twelve or thirteen feet. 'Suppose,' said I, 'you represent him as having killed one of these birds...adopted accordingly. I also suggested the navigation ofc^^ship by the dead men, but do not recollect that I had ifflmhing more to do with the scheme of... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Critics - 1884 - 310 pages
...largest sort of sea-fowl, some extending their wings twelve or fifteen feet. ' Suppose,'said I, 'you represent him as having killed one of these birds...spirits of these regions take upon them to avenge this At Nether Stowey, Coleridge heard that William Wordsworth, whose "Descriptive Sketches" he had... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Critics - 1884 - 312 pages
...sea-fowl, some extending their wings twelve or fifteen feet. ' Suppose,'said I, 'you represent him ai having killed one of these birds on entering the South...spirits of these regions take upon them to avenge this crime.' The incident was thought fit for the purpose, and adopted accordingly. I also suggested... | |
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