 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1886 - 304 pages
...language of men in a state of vivid sensation." He adopted, he said, the language of men in rustic life, " because such men hourly communicate with the best...the best part of language is originally derived." In the matter of poetic diction Wordsworth did not, in his practice, adhere to the doctrine of this... | |
 | 1887 - 716 pages
...forms of nature." His theory of poetical diction was that it should be the language of rural life, " because such men hourly communicate with the best...the best part of language is originally derived." Occasionally, his choice of subject was unfortunate. So far as diction is concerned, however, his practice... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1890 - 320 pages
...language of men in a state of vivid sensation." He adopted, he said, the language of men in rustic life, " because such men hourly communicate with the best...the best part of language is originally derived." In the matter of poetic diction Wordsworth did not, in his practice, adhere to the doctrine of this... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1891 - 484 pages
...rank in society, and the sameness and narrow circle of their intercourse, being less under the action of social vanity, they convey their feelings and notions in simple and nnelaborated expressions." To this I reply, that a rustic's laifguage. purified from all provincialism... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1892 - 214 pages
...what appear to be its 25 real defects, from all lasting and rational causes of dislike or disgust)1 because such men hourly communicate with the best...sameness and narrow circle of their intercourse, being. _ 30 less under the influence of social vanity, they convey their feelings and notions in simple and... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1894 - 342 pages
...language of men in a state of vivid sensation." He adopted, he said, the language of men in rustic life, " because such men hourly communicate with the best...the best part of language is originally derived." In the matter of poetic diction Wordsworth did not, in his practice, adhere to the doctrine of this... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - 688 pages
...language of common life, purified from its defects, is to be adopted, because men of that station " hourly communicate with the best objects from which...part of language is originally derived ; and because, . . . being less under the action of social vanity, they convey their feelings and notions in simple... | |
 | William Minto - 1894 - 440 pages
...maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language"; and because peasants "hourly communicate with the best objects from which...best part of language is originally derived," and " from their rank in life, and the sameness and narrow circle of their intercourse,being less under... | |
 | William Minto - 1894 - 438 pages
...maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language"; and because peasants "hourly communicate with the best objects from which...best part of language is originally derived," and " from their rank in life, and the sameness and narrow circle of their intercourse, being less under... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1895 - 272 pages
...to be its real defects, from all lasting and rational causes of dislike or disgust) because such 20 men hourly communicate with the best objects from...circle of their intercourse, being less under the action of social vanity, they convey their feelings and notions in simple 25 and unelaborated expressions."... | |
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The language too of these men is adopted (purified indeed from what appear to be its real defects, from all lasting and rational causes of dislike or disgust) because such men hourly communicate with the best objects from which the best part of language... 
