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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... "
Lyrical Ballads: With Pastoral and Other Poems - Page vii
by William Wordsworth - 1802
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Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books: With Introductions and Notes

William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman - Prefaces - 1910 - 458 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...comprehended, and are more durable; and, lastly, because m that condition jhe passions of men are incorporated with the_ beautiful and permanent forms of nature....
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An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times

Thomas Hill Green - Fiction - 1911 - 102 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...accurately contemplated, and more forcibly communicated... .The language, too, of these men has been adopted (purified indeed from what appear to be its real...
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Wordsworth & Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads 1798

William Wordsworth - 1911 - 296 pages
...that situation12 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 situation ls our elementary feelings exist18 in a state of greater simplicity and consequently may...
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An Outline History of English Literature

William Henry Hudson - English literature - 1913 - 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 and more emphatic language." In this declaration three points call for comment. In the first place, there is Wordsworth's choice...
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A Bookman's Letters

Sir William Robertson Nicoll - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 462 pages
...himself, to deal with low and rustic life, because in that condition the essential passions of the art are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language. It is true, of course, that he chose his themes, ' because in that condition the passions of men are...
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Wordsworth: Poems in Two Volumes, 1807

William Wordsworth - 1914 - 536 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'. (2) 'That there is no essential difference between the language of prose and that of metrical composition.'...
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Wordsworth

Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1915 - 254 pages
...condition "ffie : essential passions IjTTKe "heart hnd a better soil in which they^can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language j because in that condition of life our~eTementary feelings co-exist in a state of greater si mplicity,...
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 944 pages
...condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain [20 their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer...elementary feelings; and from the necessary character of [30 rural occupations, are more easily comprehended, and are more durable; and, lastly, because in...
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 924 pages
...condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain [20 their 㼵/>7 G{ ˭ G]w 1 < >j 3N}i^ ̤ fr^m the necessary character of [30 rural occupations, are more easily comprehended, and are mores...
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William Wordsworth, how to Know Him

Caleb Thomas Winchester - Poets, English - 1916 - 330 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...; because the manners of rural life germinate from these elementary feelings, and, from the necessary character of rural occupations, are more easily...
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