...incidents and situations from common life . . . 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." For this purpose the imagination required the sovereign liberty and transmutativo power which...

...principal object, then, proposed in these poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout,...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...

...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 and situations interesting by tracing ia them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature : chiefly, as far as regards...

...principal olijcct, then, proposed in these poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them throughout, as...throw over them a certain colouring of imagination uhereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect." The two main points...

...principal object, then, proposed in these poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them throughout, as...really used by men, and at the same time to throw orcr them a certain colouring of imagination whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind...

...principal object, then, proposed in these poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them throughout, as...selection of language really used by men, and at the some time to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination whereby ordinary things shottld be...

...object, then, which I proposed to myself in these Poems was to chuse incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them throughout, as far as was passible, in a selection of language really used by men ; and, at the same time, to throw over them...

...principal object, then, proposed in these poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout,...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...

...principal object, then, proposed in these poems was to chooge^incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout,...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...

...proposed in these Poems 30 was to choose incidents and situations from common life, _ V /"' i ,1PREFACES. to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as...really used by men, and, at the same time,, to throw jpver them a certain colouring (if iiT)^gina^nriT /whprphy ordinary things should be ^5! presented...