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" Accordingly, such a language, arising out of repeated experience and regular feelings, is a more permanent, and a far more philosophical language, than that which is frequently substituted for it by Poets, who think that they are conferring honour upon... "
The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature - Page 569
1816
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed, Volume 1

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 964 pages
...than that which is frequently substituted for it by poets, who think that they are conferring honor ) t@t N 1 [60 own creation. I cannot, however, be insensible to the present outcry against the triviality and...
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William Wordsworth, His Life, Works, and Influence, Volume 1

George McLean Harper - 1916 - 482 pages
...in the whole composition as a subordinate feature. The author speaks with scorn of those poets who " separate themselves from the sympathies of men, and...tastes and fickle appetites, of their own creation." To associate decadent art with its cause — ie, with the artist's estrangement from his fellow-men...
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Readings in English Literature

Roy Bennett Pace - 1917 - 536 pages
...than that which is frequently substituted for it by poets, who think that they are conferring honor upon themselves and their art, in proportion as they...themselves from the sympathies of men, and indulge in 45 arbitrary and capricious habits of expression, in order to furnish food for fickle tastes, and fickle...
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Anglia: Zeitschrift für englische Philologie, Volume 42

1918 - 500 pages
...permanent and a far more philosophical language than that which is frequently substituted for it by Poets who think that they are conferring honour upon...in arbitrary and capricious habits of expression. ß) durch ein gerundium mit in oder by. ') Dickens, David Copperfield Ch. 2. / might have a misgiving...
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English Literature

Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 986 pages
...than that which is frequently substituted for it by poets, who think that they are conferring honor upon themselves and their art, in proportion as they...themselves from the .sympathies of men, and indulge in 45 arbitrary and capricious habits of expression, in order to furnish food for fickle tastes, and fickle...
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Critical Essays of the Early Nineteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1921 - 458 pages
...than that which is frequently substituted for it by poets, who think that they are conferring honor upon themselves and their art, in proportion as they...order to furnish food for fickle tastes, and fickle appetities, of their own creation. 2 I cannot, however, be insensible to the present outcry against...
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University of Wisconsin Studies in Language and Literature, Issue 17

University of Wisconsin - 1922 - 300 pages
...permanent and a far more philosophical language than that which is frequently substituted for it by Poets, who think that they are conferring honour upon...tastes and fickle appetites of their own creation. Now, if this passage is read carefully and in this connection, it is clear that what Wordsworth has...
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the modern student's library

william worsworth - 1923 - 498 pages
...permanent, and a far more philosophical language, than that which is frequently substituted for it by Poets, who think that they are conferring honour upon...tastes, and fickle appetites, of their own creation.* I cannot, however, be insensible to the present outcry against the triviality and meanness, both of...
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English Critical Essays (nineteenth Century)

Edmund David Jones - 1924 - 636 pages
...permanent, and a far more philosophical language, than that which is frequently substituted for it by poets, who think that they are conferring honour upon themselves and their art in proportion as they indulge in arbitrary and capricious habits of expression ; ' it may be answered, that the language,...
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English Prose and Poetry

John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...permanent, and a far more philosophical language, than that which is frequently substituted for it by lody, — Sit ye near some old cavern's mouth, and...sea-nymphs quir'd ! WHEN I HAVE FEARS When I have I cannot, however, be insensible of the present outcry against the triviality and meanness, both of...
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