 | England - 1829 - 1008 pages
...situationsandincidents, "low and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language." I answer, that they do so... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1824 - 408 pages
...language of low and rustic life ought to be preferred because, in their opinion, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, "and because in that condition of life our elementary feelings co-exist in a state of greater simplicity."... | |
 | Martin MacDermot - English literature - 1824 - 604 pages
...language of low and vulgar life ought to be preferred, because, in his opinion, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil, in which they can attain their maturity, and because, in that condition of life, our elementary feelings co-exist in a state of greater simplicity.... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 408 pages
...language of low and rustic life ought to be preferred because, in their opinion, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, and because in that condition of life our elementary feelings co-exist in a state of greater simplicity."... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 408 pages
...language of low and rustic life ought to be preferred because, in their opinion, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, and because in that condition of life our elementary feelings co-exist in a state of greater simplicity."... | |
 | Fireside scenes - 1825 - 920 pages
...but the physiology of man in that situation, — " because in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because in that condition... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...excitement. Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because in that condition... | |
 | Robert Southey - Great Britain - 1832 - 442 pages
...regularity.' ' In the condition of low and rustic life,' says Wordsworth, ' the essential passions of the heart ' find a better soil in which they can attain their; ' maturity.' In the circumstances and feelings of this class he has found materials for poetry of a high order:... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1834 - 360 pages
...Wordsworth's objects. He chose low and rustic life, " because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil, in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because in that condition... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1816 - 594 pages
...meet with in poetry ; his reasons are : — ' Because in that condition of life the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in .which they can attain maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language : because in that... | |
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Humble and rustic life was generally chosen because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language... 
