...under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language; because in that condition of life our elementary feelings co-exist in a state of greater simplicity, and, consequently, may be more 25 accurately contemplated, and more forcibly communicated ; because the manners of rural life germinate...

...It is important here to repeat the last few phrases already quoted from Wordsworth's famous Preface: "The manners of rural life germinate from those elementary...more durable; and, lastly, because in that condition th« passions of men are incorporated with the b«»u tiful and permanent forms of nature." If Mr,...

...under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because in thai condition of life our elementary .feelings co-exist in a state of greater...with the beautiful and permanent forms of Nature." This statement was a manifesto in 1800, but to-day it is almost commonplace. As time passed writers...

...under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language; because in that condition of life our elementary feelings co-exist in a state of greater...accurately contemplated, and more forcibly communicated.' Now it is, to take up one only of the false ideas behind the words, a perverse and untenable belief...

...under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language; because in that condition of life our elementary feelings coexist in a state of greater...with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature." 1 Now it is clear to me that, in the most interesting of the poems, in which the author is more or...

...under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because in that condition of life our elementary feelings co-exist in a state of greater...incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature.1 The poet would interfere only in order to make a selection from among these materials of style,...

...speak a plainer and more emphatic language; because in that situation our elementary feelings exist in a state of greater simplicity and consequently...elementary feelings; and from the necessary character of ruraljjccupations are more easily comprehended; and are more durable; and lastly, because in that situation...

...under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language; because in that condition of life our elementary feelings coexist in a state of greater...rural occupations, are more easily comprehended, and arc more durable; and, lastly, because in that condition the passions of men are incorporated with...

...less restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because in that condition of life our elementary feelings co-exist in a state of greater...; because the manners of rural life germinate from these elementary feelings, and, from the necessary character of rural occupations, are more easily...

...(Prose Works, 1: 124, my italics). In rural conditions, he continues, "our elementary natures exist in a state of greater simplicity, and consequently...contemplated and more forcibly communicated," because passions "are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature" (Prose Works, i: 124)....