 The appropriate business of poetry, (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent as pure science,) her appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear; not as they exist in themselves,...  Egeria: Or, the Spirit of Nature, and Other Poems - Página xiiipor Charles Mackay - 1850 - 204 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 626 páginas
...borrow with the grace they lend.' As the appropriate business of poetry, according to Mr. Wordsworth, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear to be, — not as they exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses and the passions... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 páginas
...nevertheless, if genuine is as permanent as pure science) her appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty, is to treat of things not as they are, but...themselves, but as. they seem to exist to the senses and to the passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged principle prepare for the inexperienced... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 páginas
...nevertheless, if genuine is as permanent as pure science) her appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty, is to treat of things not as they are, but...themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses and to the passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged principle prepare for the inexperienced... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1820 - 362 páginas
...nevertheless, if genuine is as permanent as pure science) her appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty, is to treat of things not as they are, but...themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses and to the passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged principle prepare for the inexperienced... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 páginas
...nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent as pure science) her appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty, is to treat of things not as they are, but...themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses and to the passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged principle prepare for the inexperienced... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 páginas
...nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent as pure science) her appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty, is to treat of things not as they are, but...exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the sense* and to the passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged principle prepare for the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 614 páginas
...poetry, according to Mr. Wordsworth, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear to be, — not as they exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses and the passions of mankind, — there might, no doubt, be some danger of a rather spurious offspring rising upon us,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 618 páginas
...borrow jvith the grace they lend.' As the appropriate business of poetry, according to Mr. Wordsworth, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear to be, — not as they exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses and the passions... | |
 | 1885 - 614 páginas
...' The appropriate business of Poetry,' says Wordsworth, ' her privilege, and her duty, is to treat things not as they are, but as they appear; not as...themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses and to the passions' The most prosaic minds can apprehend things as they are ; the attributes with which... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1847 - 606 páginas
...writings testify loudly to the utter untonableness of such a theory — namely, William Wordsworth — has also uttered a sentence which some have interpreted...they seem to exist to the senses and the passions." This, however, is no depreciation of poetry, though at first glance it may look so, to assert that... | |
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