Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical BalladsRosenkilde and Bagger, 1957 - 204 pages |
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... reasons other than those advanced in the Preface . For language , even when not vulgar and mean , is yet among the works of man , enduring by growth and change ; and that variety of it which shares the steady form of the ancient hills ...
... reasons other than those advanced in the Preface . For language , even when not vulgar and mean , is yet among the works of man , enduring by growth and change ; and that variety of it which shares the steady form of the ancient hills ...
Page 93
... reason , it is assumed to be evident , is identical in all men ; and the life of reason therefore , it is tacitly or explicitly inferred , must admit of no diversity . Differences in opinion or in taste are evidences of error , and ...
... reason , it is assumed to be evident , is identical in all men ; and the life of reason therefore , it is tacitly or explicitly inferred , must admit of no diversity . Differences in opinion or in taste are evidences of error , and ...
Page 164
... Reason why we know not the Causes of Enthusiastick , as well as of ordinary Passions , is , because we are not so us'd to them , and because they proceed from Thoughts , that latently , and unobserv'd by us , carry Passion along with ...
... Reason why we know not the Causes of Enthusiastick , as well as of ordinary Passions , is , because we are not so us'd to them , and because they proceed from Thoughts , that latently , and unobserv'd by us , carry Passion along with ...
Contents
PREFACE | 11 |
The Theory of Metre | 31 |
The Spontaneous Overflow of Powerful Feelings | 40 |
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