 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,...  Poems - Стр. 343авторы: William Wordsworth - 1815Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | 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 - Страниц: 626
...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 - 1827 - Страниц: 412
...chiefly proceed ; but upon Youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...what temptations to go astray are here held forth for them whose thoughts have been little disciplined by the understanding, and whose feelings revolt from... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - Страниц: 412
...chie6y proceed ; but upon Youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...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 Wordsworth - 1828 - Страниц: 372
...treat of things not as they are, hnt as thry appear; not as they exist in themselves, hnt as tliey teem to exist to the senses and to the passions. What a world of delnsion does this acknowledged principle prepare for the inexperienced! what temptations to go astray... | |
 | 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 - Страниц: 614
...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 - Страниц: 618
...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1837 - Страниц: 376
...chiefly proceed ; but upon Youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry, (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged obligation prepare for the inexperienced! what temptations to go astray are here held forth for them... | |
 | 1885 - Страниц: 614
...' 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1847 - Страниц: 606
...early prefaces, " that the appropriate business of poetry, her appropriate employment, her privilege, her duty, is to treat of things not as they are, but...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,... | |
 | 1845 - Страниц: 458
...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... | |
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