 | 1918 - 868 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...sympathies of men and indulge in arbitrary and capricious Jiabits of expression. #) durch ein gerundium mit in oder by.') Dickens, David Copperfield Ch. 2. I... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 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. William Wordsworth, 1800, Lyrical Ballads, Preface 48:64 Visionary power / Attends the motions of the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 2000 - 788 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 of the present outcry against the triviality and meanness both of... | |
 | Laurence Coupe - 2000 - 346 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...of expression in order to furnish food for fickle taste and fickle appetites of their own creation. I cannot be insensible of the present outcry against... | |
 | Laurence Coupe - 2000 - 346 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...of expression in order to furnish food for fickle taste and fickle appetites of their own creation. I cannot be insensible of the present outcry against... | |
 | Martin Travers - 2001 - 372 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2003 - 356 pages
...permanent and a far more philosophical language than that which is frequendy 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 of the present outcry against the triviality and meanness, both of... | |
 | David Crystal - 2003 - 230 pages
...frequently substituted for it by Poets, who think that they are conferring honour upon themselvesandtheirart in proportion as they separate themselves from the...in arbitrary and capricious habits of expression, inordertofurnishfood for fickle tastes and fickle appetites of their own creation. (Preface to the... | |
 | Saree Makdisi - 2003 - 432 pages
...in the "arbitrary and capricious habits of expression" which are used by certain unmentionable Poets "in order to furnish food for fickle tastes and fickle appetites of their own creation." Instead of the "gross and violent stimulants" provided by fashionable literature, by those "frantic... | |
 | William Keach - 2004 - 216 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. (P WWW 1: 124) Wordsworth is responding directly here to Locke's doctrine that words are signs of ideas,... | |
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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... 
