 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 Quarterly Review - Side 333redigert av - 1832Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 sider
...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, 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 sider
...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, 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 sider
...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, 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 sider
...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, 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 sider
...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, 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... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1832 - 648 sider
...Wordsworth, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear to be, — not as they exists in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses...there might, no doubt, be some danger of a rather iporious offspring rising upon us, were any sei ence of observation thus ' married to immortal verse.'... | |
 | 1885 - 614 sider
...Wordsworth, ' her privilege, and her duty, is to treat things not as they are, but as they appear; not as they exist in 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 sider
...appropriate employment, her privilege, her duty, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear ; not as they exist in 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, to assert that... | |
 | 1845 - 458 sider
...contradistinction to philosophy or science, is " to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear ; not as they exist in 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 difficult to tell... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 sider
...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, but as they seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged obligation prepare for the inexperienced!... | |
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