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" 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 343
by William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815
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Choice specimens of English literature, selected and arranged by T.B. Shaw ...

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...
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Choice Specimens of English Literature: Selected from the Chief English ...

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...
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Choice Specimens of English Literature: Selected from the Chief English ...

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...
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The poetical works of William Wordsworth. New and ..., Issue 620, Volume 6

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...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

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...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

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,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters ...

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...
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A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose

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...
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Authors at Work

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...
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The poetical works of Wordsworth. Repr. of the 1827 ed., with ..., Issue 476

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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