 | 1914 - 706 էջ
...been called in question. In his autobiography he says, when speaking of Wordsworth : What made his poems a medicine for my state of mind was that they...not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling and thought colored by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. I needed to be made to feel that there... | |
 | Robert McWilliam - 1900 - 644 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 expressed not mere outward beauty, but states of feelitig and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. They seemed to be the... | |
 | John N. Crawford - 1903 - 442 էջ
...Mill speaks of his first reading of Wordsworth's poems and of their effect upon him : What made his poems a medicine for my state of mind was that they expressed not mere outward beauty, but states ot feeling and of thought colored by feeling under the excitement of beauty. I needed to be made to... | |
 | William James Dawson - 1906 - 416 էջ
...is 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... | |
 | John Morley - 1907 - 382 էջ
...life was his first reading of Wordsworth. " What made his poems a medicine for my state of mind \vas that they expressed not mere outward beauty, but states...coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. I needed to be made to feel that there was real permanent happiness in tranquil contemplation. Wordsworth... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 484 էջ
...Wordsworth, and a very second-rate landscape does it more effectually than any poet. What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they...under the excitement of beauty. They seemed to be the "verycuirare" of the feelings, which I was in quest of. In them I seemecTIb draw from a source of inward... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 էջ
...and a very second-rate landscape does it more 20 effectually than any poet. What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they...beauty. They seemed to be the very culture of the feel25 ings which I was in quest of. In them I seemed to draw from a source of inward joy, of sympathetic... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 390 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...coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. I needed to be made to feel that there was real permanent happiness in tranquil contemplation. Wordsworth... | |
 | Nannie Niemeyer - 1921 - 228 էջ
...the first time (in the autumn of 1828) an important event of my life. . . . What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind was that they...coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. (By kind permission of Messrs. Longmans, Green &- Co.] 15 [The Journal of a Disappointed Man (WNP Barbellion)... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 392 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...coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. I needed to be made to feel that there was real permanent happiness in tranquil contemplation. Wordsworth... | |
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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. 
