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" The principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men... "
Aesthetical and literary - Page 81
by William Wordsworth - 1876
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Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems, in Two Volumes, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 pages
...from performing it. The principal object, then, which I proposed to myself in these Poems was to chuse incidents and situations from common life, and to...language really used by men ; and, at the same time, ta throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 4, Part 1

1808 - 596 pages
...that " his principal object was to chuse incidents and situations from common life, and to relate and describe them throughout, as far as was possible,...really used by men ; and at the same time to throw upon them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...then, which I proposed to myself in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from com365 tnon life, and to relate or describe them, throughout,...same time, to throw over them a certain colouring 6f imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way ; and, further,...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 3

William Wordsworth - 1832 - 378 pages
...ascertained, prevents him from performing it. The principal object, then, which I proposed to myself in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations...possible in a selection of language really used by men, y 3 and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary...
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Lectures on Poetry and General Literature: Delivered at the Royal ...

James Montgomery - 1833 - 528 pages
...choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate and describe them throughout, as far as possible, in a selection of language really used by men ; and at the same time to throw upon them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind...
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Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c., Delivered at the Royal ...

James Montgomery - 1833 - 348 pages
...poetry, and perpetuated among all classes of their successors, he avowed that " his principal object was, to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate and describe them throughout, as far as possible, in ;>. selection of language really used by men ;...
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The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and ..., Volume 28

1865 - 962 pages
...life, ami to relate and desCTiV them throughout, as far as was possible, in a selection of laiKruusre really used by men, and at the same time to throw over Ihtm a certain colouring of imagination whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in...
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Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c: Delivered at the Royal ...

James Montgomery - 1838 - 332 pages
...poetry, and perpetuated among all classes of their successors, he avowed that " his principal object was, to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate and describe them throughout, as far as possible, in a selection of language really used by men ; and...
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The Poems of William Wordsworth, D.C.L., Poet Laureate, Etc. Etc

William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...his duty, or, when his duty is ascertained, prevents him from performing it. The principal objeet, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to rclateor describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a seleetion of language really used by...
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The Poems of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 pages
...to choose incidents and situations from common life,and to relate or describe them, throughout, аи far as was possible in a selection of language really...certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary tilings should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect ; and, further, and above all, to make...
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