 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,...  The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Página 236por William Wordsworth - 1854Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 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 - 1815 - 442 páginas
...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...passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged principle prepare for the inexperienced ! what temptations to go astray are here held forth for those... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 páginas
...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...passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged principle prepare for the inexperienced ! what temptations to go astray are here held forth for those... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1820 - 362 páginas
...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...passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged principle prepare for the inexperienced ! what temptations to go astray are here held forth for those... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...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 passion and feeling... | |
 | 1845 - 458 páginas
...thing. It has been said that the business of poetry, in contradistinction to philosophy or science, is " to treat of things not as they are, but as they...themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses and the passions." But it is difficult to say what things are except by what they seem to us, and it is... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1847 - 606 páginas
...prefaces, " that the appropriate business of poetry, her appropriate employment, her privilege, her duty, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they...themselves, but as 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,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 páginas
...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...understanding, and whose feelings revolt from the ewаy of reason ! — When a juvenile Reader is in thr height of his rapture with some vicious passage,... | |
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