 He is a man speaking to men — a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind...  The Living Age - Page 3151904Full view - About this book
 | 1839 - 538 pages
...of poetry. He describes the poet as " — a man speaking to men : a man, it is true, endowed with a more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness,...soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind ; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - American periodicals - 1839 - 540 pages
...to men : a man, it is true, endowed with a more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tendetness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a...soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind ; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit... | |
 | Margaret Lawrence Jones - 1841 - 132 pages
...Poetry the revelation, expected from him ? He is a man speaking to men : a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and...soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind ; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...And what language is to be expected from him! — He is a man speaking to men : a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm...soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind ; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...í And what language is to be expeeted from him! — He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm...soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind ; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices I more than other men in the... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...what language is to be expected from him ? He is a man speaking to men : a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and...soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind ; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit... | |
 | Art - 1853 - 444 pages
...who can sit in a chair and write verses, but he is a man speaking to man : a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and...soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind ; who has contemplated nature in her thousand forms, who has treasured within him the remembrance of... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1856 - 772 pages
...Mr. Aytoun to the dignity of a poet. 'A poet,' says one well able to answer the question, ' is a man endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm...comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind.'t ' What is poetry r" asks the greatest critic of the last generation. ' It is the true exhibition,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 472 pages
...himself? And what language is to be expected from him 1—He is a man speaking to men : a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm...soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1859 - 384 pages
...is to be expected from him ? — He is a man speaking to men : a man, it is true, endowed with.jnore lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness,...soul, than are supposed to be " common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more rthan other men in the spirit... | |
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