 | William James Dawson - 1890 - 396 էջ
...deep and essential in Nature." John Stuart Mill has written in his "Autobiography :" " What made his poems a medicine for my state of mind was that they...not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling and thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. I needed to be made to feel that there... | |
 | Brother Azarias - 1891 - 160 էջ
...in that philosopher's life. " What made his poems a medicine for my state of mind," he tells us, " was that they expressed not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling and of thought colored by feeling under the excitement of beauty. I needed to be made to feel that there was real... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1892 - 220 էջ
...but from him he got no good. He took up Wordsworth, and found in his poems a medicine for his mind in that " they expressed not mere outward beauty, but...feeling, under the excitement of beauty. " They seemed," he continues, " to be the very culture of the feelings which I was in quest of. ... I found that he,... | |
 | GEORGE BIRKBECK HILL - 1892 - 418 էջ
...but from him he got no good. He took up Wordsworth, and found in his poems a medicine for his mind in that " they expressed not mere outward beauty, but...feeling, under the excitement of beauty. " They seemed," he continues, " to be the very culture of the feelings which I was in quest of. ... I found that he,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1892 - 970 էջ
...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 expressed not mere outward l>eauty, but states of feeling and of thought colored by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. I... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1892 - 220 էջ
...feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. "They seemed," he continues, "to be the very culture of the feelings which I was in quest of. ... I found that he, too, had had similar experience to mine ; that he also had felt that the first... | |
 | Garnet Smith - 1894 - 326 էջ
...vary and combine at pleasure. I could find no " perennial " happiness, despite John Stuart Mill, in " states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty." Nay, rather, I could fain cry with Meleager : "My soul, whose love is pain, cease, oh ! cease to joy... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1894 - 258 էջ
...the form of excellence he wished for. It is rather in his delineation, as John Stuart Mill said, 'of states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty,' that he is so distinctively original and powerful. But if this were all, Wordsworth would not occupy... | |
 | Charles Douglas - 1895 - 330 էջ
...discovered his " healing power " ; and the satisfaction which he got from Wordsworth's expression of " states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty,"3 was a decisive factor in his development. It not only restored him to a more tranquil state... | |
 | R. McWilliam - 1897 - 176 էջ
...relief in the sweetness and healing influence of Wordsworth's minor poems : What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they...very culture of the feelings which I was in quest of. When Carlyle settled in London, he found Mill was one of his ardent admirers, and, though in later... | |
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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. 
