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... principles I can see no essen- tial contradiction , nor do I think that they can be safely separated . At the same time it is perfectly easy to consider each by itself ; and indeed , it is sufficiently obvious that , under our party ...
... principles I can see no essen- tial contradiction , nor do I think that they can be safely separated . At the same time it is perfectly easy to consider each by itself ; and indeed , it is sufficiently obvious that , under our party ...
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... principle of laisser faire without regard to circumstances ? If the imposition of political disabilities on those who refused to conform to the established religion of the country was a policy which could only be defended under cer ...
... principle of laisser faire without regard to circumstances ? If the imposition of political disabilities on those who refused to conform to the established religion of the country was a policy which could only be defended under cer ...
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... principles ' of poetry . These ran as follows : All images drawn from what is beau- tiful and sublime in the works of Nature are more beautiful and sublime than images drawn from Art , and are therefore more poetical . ' And : ' Subject ...
... principles ' of poetry . These ran as follows : All images drawn from what is beau- tiful and sublime in the works of Nature are more beautiful and sublime than images drawn from Art , and are therefore more poetical . ' And : ' Subject ...
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... principle , it will not hold water any more than his particular instance . Poetry , ' he tells us , in which there is no element at once perceptible and indefinable by any reader or hearer of any poetic instinct is not poetry of the ...
... principle , it will not hold water any more than his particular instance . Poetry , ' he tells us , in which there is no element at once perceptible and indefinable by any reader or hearer of any poetic instinct is not poetry of the ...
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... Both critics are Liberals : the poets they are writing about were Liberals : their criticisms are made on Liberal principles . The Conservatives are 6 out of the quarrel altogether . Not that either 20 ESSAY I THE LIBERAL MOVEMENT.
... Both critics are Liberals : the poets they are writing about were Liberals : their criticisms are made on Liberal principles . The Conservatives are 6 out of the quarrel altogether . Not that either 20 ESSAY I THE LIBERAL MOVEMENT.
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Page 98 - Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Page 73 - In the one the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural ; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real.
Page 74 - Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself, as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us — an inexhaustible treasure, but for which, in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel...
Page 74 - For the second class, subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life; the characters and incidents were to be such, as will be found in every village and its vicinity, where there is a meditative and feeling mind to seek after them, or to notice them, when they present themselves.
Page 145 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Page 157 - The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or mineralogist, will be as proper objects of the poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of these respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings.
Page 180 - O Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed ; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity...
Page 80 - The principal object, then, proposed in these 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...
Page 45 - Right, it has been the uniform policy of our Constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity...
Page 187 - Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.