The appropriate business of poetry, (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent as pure science,) her appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear ; not as they exist in themselves,... Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the ... - Page 343by William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815Full view - About this book
| Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...chiefly proceed ; but upon youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...senses and to the passions. What a world of delusion docs this acknowledged principle prepare for the inexperienced ! what temptations to go astray are... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...chiefly proceed; but upon youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...what temptations to go astray are here held forth for them whose thoughts have been little disciplined by the understanding, and whose feelings revolt from... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1850 - 492 pages
...chiefly proceed; but upon youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless. if genuine, is as permanent...acknowledged principle prepare for the inexperienced 1 what temptations to go astray are here held forth for them whose thoughts have been little disciplined... | |
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870 - 474 pages
...chiefly proceed ; but upon Youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry, (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...appear; not as they exist in themselves, but as they teem to exist to the semes, and to the passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged obligation... | |
| Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 538 pages
...And on his willows hung each muse's lyre. " The appropriate business of poetry," says Wordsworth, " her privilege, and her duty, is to treat of things...themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses and passions."3 Since genuine emotions are often founded upon fancies, since thoughts are not always the... | |
| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1871 - 632 pages
...chiefly proceed ; but upon youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...her appropriate employment, her privilege and her rfu/y, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear; not as they exist in them* selves,... | |
| Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 524 pages
...And on his willows hung each muse's lyre. " The appropriate business of poetry," says Wordsworth, " her privilege, and her duty, is to treat of things not as they aie, but as they appear ; not as they exist in themselves, but as tli-y seem to exist to the senses... | |
| English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...chiefly proceed ; but upon youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...what temptations to go astray are here held forth for them whose thoughts have been little disciplined by the understanding, and whose feelings revolt from... | |
| Charles Pebody - Authors, English - 1872 - 460 pages
...which is in the countenance of all science;" and, in his opinion, the appropriate business of poetry, her privilege and her duty, is " to treat of things...they exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist in the senses and to the passions." He has thus been called the English Plato ; and the phrase is an... | |
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pages
...it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry (which nevertheless, if genume, is as permanent as pure science) her appropriate employment,...privilege and her duty, is to treat of things not as they art, but as they appear ; not as they exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses... | |
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