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" For the human mind is capable of being excited without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this, and who does not further know, that one being is elevated... "
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Página 206
por John Wilson - 1842
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The Self on the Page: Theory and Practice of Creative Writing in Personal ...

Celia Hunt - 1998 - 228 páginas
...'He must have a very faint perception of [the human mind's] beauty and dignity who does not know. . . that one being is elevated above another, in proportion as he possesses this capability' (Wordsworth 1973, pp.592-61 1). language - not a translation of one already in existence - would be...
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Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790s

David Bromwich - 2000 - 204 páginas
...very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this, and who does not further know that one being is elevated above another in proportion as he possesses this capability."11 The standpoint may sound magisterial and humane, but with a slight turn, one can hear...
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Romanticism at the End of History

Jerome Christensen - 2000 - 262 páginas
...very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this, and who does not further know, that one being is elevated above another, in proportion as he possesses this capability." De Quincey's investment of a tincture of opium and five measly shillings to procure the sublime pleasures...
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The Green Studies Reader: From Romanticism to Ecocriticism

Laurence Coupe - 2000 - 346 páginas
...very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this, and who does not further know that one being is elevated above another in proportion as he possesses this capability. It has therefore appeared to me that to endeavour to produce or enlarge this capability is one of the...
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The Hidden Wordsworth

Kenneth R. Johnston - 2001 - 740 páginas
...very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this, and who does not further know that one being is elevated above another in proportion as he possesses this capability. It has therefore appeared to me that to endeavour to produce or enlarge this capabilty is one of the...
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Whitman Possessed: Poetry, Sexuality, and Popular Authority

Mark Maslan - 2001 - 250 páginas
...mind is capable of being excited without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and . . . one being is elevated above another, in proportion as he possesses this capability. ... To endeavour to enlarge this capability is one of the best services in which . . . a writer can...
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Lyrical Ballads and Other Poems

William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2003 - 356 páginas
...very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this, and who does not further know, that one being is elevated above another, in proportion as he possesses this capability. It has therefore appeared to me, that to endeavour to produce or enlarge this capability is one of...
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Tracing the Essay: Through Experience to Truth

George Douglas Atkins - 2005 - 196 páginas
...very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this, and who does not further know, that one being is elevated above another, in proportion as he possesses this capability. It has therefore appeared to me, that the endeavour to produce or enlarge this capability is one of...
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Mystical Discourse in Wordsworth and Whitman: A Transatlantic Bridge

D. J. Moores - 2006 - 260 páginas
...sensibility - a Very faint perception of its beauty and dignity' - to be moved by his verse, however, for 'one being is elevated above another in proportion as he possesses this capability' (436). Using a mystical image similar to Whitman's, he claims that through poetry 'Would I arouse the...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volumen26

1829 - 1252 páginas
...least we are all alike. Pour into separate vessels the blood of various men, analyze it, decompose it, distil it, till all factitious differences evaporate...falsehood in this sentiment. The mind that demands the violentexcitementof " frantic novels," or the gross nutriment of " sickly and stupid German tragedies,"...
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