...prefixed, 'chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure.' Though we hnve been extremely entertained with the fancy, the facility, and (in general) the sentiments,...

...human mind.":): Yet, surely, it will not follow tint " the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." To afford pleasure, poetry must call imagination to the aid of reason : fancy must create, or at least...

...Ballads" "were written chiefly to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." Wordsworth's experiment failed; or rather it was never carried out. When once he had owned that metre...

...were written " chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." At this announcement all the respectable people took h're, that is, all who condescended to notice...

...were written " chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." At this announcement all the respectable people took fire, that is, all who condescended to notice...

...were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes...says of the former volume that " it was published aa an experiment which, I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain how far, by fitting to metrical...

...says that his aim was " to ascertain how far the language and conversation of men in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure ;" and, in the second edition, he describes it as " an experiment." His own practice was better than...

...says that his aim was ' to ascertain how far the language and conversation of men in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure ;' and, in the second edition, he describes it as ' an experiment.' His own practice was better than...

..."LYRICAL BALLADS." SEVERAL of these poems have already been submitted to general perusal, They were published, as an experiment, which, I hoped, might be of some use to ascertam, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a...

...were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes...in deference to the wider view and finer sense of Colei'idge), and now says of the former volume that " it was published as an experiment which, I hoped,...