 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1898 - 488 pages
...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...of greater simplicity, and consequently may be more acinrately contemplated and more forcibly communicated ; because the manners of rural life germinate... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1898 - 263 pages
...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 rustics ‘hourly communicate with the best objects from which the best part of language is originally... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - 1900 - 358 pages
...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";—and here again, in the Prelude: " Here might I pause, and bend in reverence To Nature,... | |
 | Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall, Sir Alfred C. Lyall - History - 1902 - 260 pages
...he has chosen low and rustic subjects, because in that condition the essential passions of the heart are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language. To this Coleridge replies that low and rustic life is in itself unpoetic, and that poetry must idealise.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1904 - 382 pages
...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. 703. " trotting brooks. Mr Thomas Hutchinson suggests that Wordsworth was thinking of Burns's phrase,... | |
 | Georg Morris Cohen Brandes - 1905 - 392 pages
...maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer language. He was of opinion that in that condition our elementary feelings co-exist in a state of greater...and consequently may be more accurately contemplated than in town life ; and he was also persuaded that constant association with the beautiful and permanent... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1907 - 348 pages
...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...elementary feelings coexist in a state of greater simpli- 30 city, and consequently may be more accurately contemplated, and more forcibly communicated... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1907 - 348 pages
...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...elementary feelings coexist in a state of greater simpli- 3° city, and consequently may be more accurately contemplated, and more forcibly communicated... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1907 - 336 pages
...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 rustics 'hourly communicate with the best objects from which the best part of language is originally... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1909 - 396 pages
...Wordsworth that persons and objects of humble and rustic life form the most fitting subject of poetry, " because in that condition of life our elementary feelings...germinate from those elementary feelings; . . . and lastly, because in that condition the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent... | |
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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... 
