 | Solomon Francis Gingerich - 1924 - Страниц: 298
...confirmed his belief in the idea of growth, accentuating its importance ; above all, it suggested to him "the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement." But Wordsworth's susceptibilities after all were greatest as poet, and his widest culture came from... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - Страниц: 928
...situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nown'd, And Troy's proud dames, whose Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the... | |
 | Annie Edwards Powell Dodds - 1926 - Страниц: 284
...images," new " generalizations of truth or experience."2 So Wordsworth found a special significance in " the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement." There is still the presupposition that in this state of emotion the poet sees truly, but there is a... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1926 - Страниц: 548
...situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature, — chiefly, as far as regards the manner...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Humble and rustic life was generally chosen — The language, too, of these men has been adopted —... | |
 | Rolfe Arnold Scott-James - 1928 - Страниц: 406
...proposed to make " incidents and situations interesting by tracing in them . . . primary laws of our nature : chiefly, as far as regards the manner in...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement." But his innate artistic sense leads him to qualify these words : primary laws are to be traced " truly... | |
 | Arthur Beatty - 1928 - Страниц: 582
...common life interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature : chiefly as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement." In more particular terms, his purpose "is to follow the fluxes and refluxes of the mind when agitated... | |
 | Marilyn Butler - 1984 - Страниц: 280
...situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature: chiefly as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition, the essential passions of the... | |
 | Stuart Curran - 1990 - Страниц: 280
...selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation," and it certainly serves to illustrate "the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement" (Prose, I, 118, 122, 124). If in this hymn Wordsworth reveals himself more interested in adducing a... | |
 | Bruce Mazlish - 1988 - Страниц: 524
...grounded his poetry in Associationalist psychology. He talks of "certain known habits of association," of "the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement," and takes as his poetry's task "to illustrate the manner in which our feelings and ideas are associated... | |
 | Richard Eldridge - 1989 - Страниц: 236
...various 'incidents and situations from common life'] . . . the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement" (Pref., 447). The poet seeks to reveal how and what, given our shared nature, we think and feel in... | |
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... the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. 
