 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...ideas in a state of excitement. Low 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 ; because in that condition... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1832 - 452 pages
...union, subordination, and regularity.' ' In the condition of low and rustic life,' says Wordsworth, ' the essential passions of the heart ' find a better soil in which they can attain their * maturity.' In the circumstances and feelings of this class he has found materials for poetry of a high order :... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1834 - 360 pages
...however, were not Mr. Wordsworth's objects. He chose low and rustic life, " 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 ; because in that condition... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1834 - 368 pages
...can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because in that condition of life our elementary feelings co-exist in a state of greater simplicity, and, consequently, may be more accurately contemplated, and more forcibly communicated ; because the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1816 - 594 pages
...been accustomed to meet with in poetry ; his reasons are : — ' Because in that condition of life the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in .which they can attain maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language : because in that... | |
 | 1839 - 538 pages
...materials for his imagination, " because," (among other reasons assigned by him,) " 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, — and because our -elementary... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...however, were not Mr. Wordsworth's object!. He chow low and rustic life, " because in that condition critics, are less under restraint, and S[ieak a plainer and more emphatic language; because in that condition... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 414 pages
...situations and ' incidents, " low 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, I are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more ' emphatic language." I answer, that they... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 426 pages
...of situations and incidents, " low 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." I answer, that they do so... | |
 | 1846 - 602 pages
...furnished by any poet since the days of Dryden). " Humble and rustic life was generally chosen," he says, " because ... in that condition of life our elementary...feelings coexist in a state of greater simplicity . . . because the manners of rural life germinate from those elementary feelings . .. . and because,... | |
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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... 
