 What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they expressed, not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty.  The Edinburgh Review - Seite 1131874Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 Seiten
...still better than Wordsworth, and a very second-rate landscape does it more effectually than any poet. What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state...outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought colored by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. They seemed to be the very culture of the feelings... | |
 | 1879 - 684 Seiten
...life desirable ' when all the greater evils .... shall have been removed,' consists, he tells us, 'in states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty.' This is the only description, the most accurate and complete description he can give us .jf the one... | |
 | Henry Preble, Charles Pomeroy Parker - 1884 - 116 Seiten
...can do so and so. I neither estimated myself highly nor lowly ; I did not estimate myself at all. 52. What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state...outward beauty, but states of feeling and of thought colored by feeling under the excitement of beauty. They seemed to be the very culture of the feelings... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 648 Seiten
...society with whom he is now enrolled as fifth in the succession of the great English poets. — Ibid. What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state...outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought colored by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. They seemed to be the very culture of the feelings... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 614 Seiten
...society with whom he is now enrolled as fifth in the succession of the great English poets. — Ibid. What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state...outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought colored by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. They seemed to be the very culture of the feelings... | |
 | William Wordsworth, John Morley - 1889 - 1152 Seiten
...has described how important an event in his life was his first reading of Wordsworth. " What made his poems a medicine for my state of mind was that they...coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. I needed to be made to feel that there was real permanent happiness in tranquil contemplation. Wordsworth... | |
 | William Leonard Courtney - 1889 - 124 Seiten
...Wordsworth, and found in his poems a real medicine for his mind. The reason was that these poems expressed states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling,...They seemed to be the very culture of the feelings of which he was in quest. It was true that Wordsworth, compared with the greatest poets, " might be... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 468 Seiten
...but a struggle against cruel necessity, went to Wordsworth's poetry, and of the result says : — " What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state...expressed, not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, under the excitement of beauty. They seemed to be the very culture of the feelings which I was in quest... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 488 Seiten
...but a struggle against cruel necessity, went to Wordsworth's poetry, and of the result says.: — " What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state...expressed, not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, under the excitement of beauty. They seemed to be the very culture of the feelings which I was in quest... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1889 - 608 Seiten
...for him at this period. " What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind," he writes, "was that they expressed, not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of UWHight colored by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. They seemed to be the very culture of the... | |
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