 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...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...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way ; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ballads - 1805 - 284 pages
...prevents him from performing it. The principal object, then, which I proposed to myself in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common...things should be presented to the mind in an. unusual way; and, further, and above all,. to> make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 pages
...prevents him from performing it. The principal object, then, which I proposed to myself in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common...things should be presented to the. mind in an unusual way; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...which I proposed to myself in i these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from com- . mon life, and to relate or describe them, throughout,...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way ; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | England - 1829 - 1008 pages
...preface, that it has been his object, not only to choose incidents and situations from common life, but " at the same time to throw over them a certain colouring...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way." That he has succeeded in presenting ordinary things to the mind in an unusual way,/ few persons... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...prevents him from performing it. The principal object, then, which I proposed to myself in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way ; and, further, and above all, to make those incidents and situations interesting by tracing in... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 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...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way . and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in... | |
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I proposed to myself 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, and, at the. same time, to throw over them... 
