...that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language." I answer, that they do so or not according to the powers of him who is their interpreter. I urge, that...

...the essential passions of the heart .find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, I are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more ' emphatic language." I answer, that they do so or not according to the powers of him who is their interpreter. I urge, that...

...furnished by any poet since the days of Dryden). " Humble and rustic life was generally chosen," he says, " because ... in that condition of life our elementary...feelings coexist in a state of greater simplicity . . . because the manners of rural life germinate from those elementary feelings . .. . and because,...

...furnished by any poet since the days of Dryden). " Humble and rustic life was generally chosen," he eays, " because ... in that condition of life our elementary...feelings coexist in a state of greater simplicity . . . because the manners of rural life germinate from those elementary feelings . . . and because,...

...that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil, in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer...more easily comprehended, and are more durable ; and lastlj*, because in that condition the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent...

...that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil, in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer...state of greater simplicity, and, consequently, may be accurately contemplated, and mure forcibly communicated ; because the manners of ru ral life germinate...

...bear*, find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are leas under restraint, and sj»?Ak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because in...simplicity, and, consequently, may be more accurately contemplatt-J. and more forcibly communicated ; because tb~ manners of rural life germinate from those...

...— First, he purposely chose his incidents and situations from low and rustic life, because in it our elementary feelings coexist in a state of greater...accurately contemplated and more forcibly communicated ; and in it also the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and lasting forms of nature....

...of the heart find a better soil, in which they can attain their maturity, are less under constraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because,...feelings co-exist in a state of greater simplicity, and, con* Preface printed at tho end of second volume of his works. seqnently, may be more accurately contemplated,...

...find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak in plainer and more emphatic language ; because in that...communicated; because the manners of rural life germinate from these feelings, and from the necessary character of rural occupations, are more easily comprehended...