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" For the human mind is capable of being excited without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this, and who does not further know, that one being is elevated... "
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 206
by John Wilson - 1842
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Lyrical Ballads,: With Other Poems. In Two Volumes, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - 1800 - 270 pages
...very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this, and who does not further know that one being is elevated above another in proportion as he possesses this capability. It has therefore appeared to me that to endeavour to produce or enlarge this capability is one of the...
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Lyrical ballads, with other poems [including some by S.T. Coleridge]. From ...

William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...faint perception of its beauty and dignity, who does not know this, and who does not further know, that one being is elevated above another in proportion as he possesses this capability. It has therefore appeared to me, that to enileavour to produce or enljrge this capability is one of...
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Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems, in Two Volumes, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 pages
...very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this, and who does not further know, that one being is elevated above another, in proportion as he possesses this capability. It has therefore appeared to me, that to endeavour to produce or enlarge this capability is one of...
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Lyrical Ballads: With Pastoral and Other Poems

William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this, and who does not further know, that one being is elevated above another, in proportion as he possesses this capať bility. It has therefore appeared to me, that to endeavour to produce or enlarge this capability...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this, and who does not further know, that one being is elevated above another, in proportion as he possesses this capability. It has therefore appeared to me, that to endeavour to produce or enlarge this capability is one of...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 26

England - 1829 - 1008 pages
...least' we are all alike. Pour into separate vessels the blood of various men, analyze it, decompose it, distil it, till all factitious differences evaporate...proportion as it recedes from this diseased torpor, I deny. For it may recede until it shall have crossed the boundary line which separates the height...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: In Eight Volumes, Volume 8

William Wordsworth - 1900 - 266 pages
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

John Wilson - 1842 - 426 pages
...of being excited without the application of gross and violent stimulants ;" and that " one being ia elevated above another, in proportion as he possesses...German tragedies," is, I grant, indeed in a diseased stale; but that the mind is in a sane state in proportion as it recedes from this diseased torpor,...
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Bacchus, an essay on intemperance

Ralph Barnes Grindrod - 1843 - 396 pages
...of gross and violent stimutauty and dignity who does not know this, anc who does not further know, that one being is elevated above another in proportion as he possesses this capability." WORDSWORTH. " Nothing is so great a friend to the mind of man as abstinence; it strengthens the memory,...
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The Poems of William Wordsworth, D.C.L., Poet Laureate, Etc. Etc

William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this, and who does not further know, that one being is elevated above another, in proportion as he possesses this capability. It has therefore appeared to me, that to endeavour to produce or enlarge this capability is one of...
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