 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...  The Works of ... - Page 370by Alexander Pope - 1889Full view - About this book
 | 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...really used by men ; and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind... | |
 | 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
...ascertained, prevents him from performing it. The principal object, then, which I proposed to myself in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations...really used by men ; and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 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...really used by men ; and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the. mind... | |
 | 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 - 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,...really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring 6f 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,...really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind... | |
 | 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...really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 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... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 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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