...coloring of imagination whereby ordinary tilings should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect; and further and above all, to make these incidents...though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our natures, chiefly as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement."...

...selection of language really used by men, and at the same time to throw over them a certain coloring of imagination whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect; and further and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in...

...throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination,...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect ; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing...

...throughout, as far as was possible, in a selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination,...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect." "There will also be found in these pieces little of what is usually called poetic diction;...

...stated in the Preface to the second, enlarged, edition, ' was to make the incidents of common life interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature.' 1 Here Wordsworth was combating quite a different, and a much more modern, evil than conventional ;tic...

...stated in the Preface to the second, enlarged, edition, ' was to make the incidents of common life interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature.'1 Here Wordsworth was combating quite a different, and a much more modern, evil than conventional...

...throughout, as far as was possible, in a selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination,...tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the priman7 laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a...

...throughout, as far as was possible, in a selection of language really used by men ; and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination,...make these incidents and situations interesting by 12 1802 : chosen, because in that condition, the 13 1802 : because in that condition of life . . ....

...colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect; and further, and above all, to make these incidents...not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature." l Coleridge gives corroboration. " Mr. Wordsworth," he says, " was to propose to himself as his object,...

...famous Preface that his object was "to choose incidents and situations from common life, . . . and to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination,...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect ; and further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing...