...emotion can be their own exponents. He says he will " choose incidents and situations from common life, tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature : chiefly as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement." His aim "is to follow the...

...them a certain colouring of the imagination, whereby ojdinary things should be presented to the mind m an unusual aspect ; and further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting_by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature, chiefly,...

...to throw over them a certain coloring of the imagination whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect; and further and...a state of excitement. Humble and rustic life was usually chosen because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in...

...colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way; ver There as here!" 20 WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY...second son of a numerous race, descendants of Richard Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the...

...colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way ; r, I feir, my deir master, That we will cum to harme."...lang may their ladies sit, Wi thair fans into thei Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the...

...to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect ; and, further, and...truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of pur nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement."...

...presented to the mind in an unusual aspect ;j> and, further, and above all, to make these incidents ana situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though...chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we assoL ciate ideas in a state of excitement." It is obvious at a glance that five different purposes...

...predominated; and when Wordsworth, in the fourth part of this complex declaration, says that he proposes " to make these incidents and situations interesting...not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature," we may feel sure that such an idea and such a formal expression of it would never have come to him...

...time, to throw over them a certain coloring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented "that he looks before and after."1 He is the rock of defense IB incidents and situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary...

...with the very great exception of its musical form and its indwelling thought, so amply illustrating " the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement," its elements are present in. Dorothy's description, to which he no doubt turned. This is the locus...