 | Frank Vigor Morley - 1924 - 226 pages
...observing, with the imaginative faculty in modifying, the objects observed; and above all the original gift of spreading the tone, the atmosphere, and with it...lustre, had dried up the sparkle and the dew drops.' It is wrong to derive Wordsworth's steady river from a perforation made in Coleridge's tank; at the... | |
 | Rolfe Arnold Scott-James - Criticism - 1928 - 406 pages
...observing, with the imaginative faculty in modifying the objects observed ; and above all the original gift of spreading the tone, the atmosphere, and with it...bedimmed all the lustre, had dried up the sparkle and the dewdrops. . . . This excellence, which in all Mr Wordsworth's writings is more or less predominant,... | |
 | Norman Foerster - Literary Criticism - 1928 - 306 pages
...supernal not only by his creation of a high harmony, but also — in the language of Coleridge — by ' spreading the tone, the atmosphere, and with it the depth and height of the ideal world around the forms, incidents, and situations' that constitute this harmony. In this conception of the workings... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1958 - 196 pages
...observing with the imaginative faculty in modifying the objects observed; and above all the original gift of spreading the tone, the atmosphere, and with it...lustre, had dried up the sparkle and the dew drops'. From admiration the two poets turned to collaboration. In November 1797, on a long walking tour to... | |
 | M. H. Abrams - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 494 pages
...something in the very nature of the poetic task he had set himself which made this inevitable? 'To spread the tone, the atmosphere, and with it the depth and...situations, of which, for the common view, custom had bedimraed all the lustre, had dried up the sparkle and the dew-drops' 1B— this is probably the special... | |
 | Vinayak Krishna Gokak - Aesthetics, British - 1975 - 84 pages
...intuition which is a single and undivided act. Coleridge describes this elsewhere as the "original gift of spreading the tone, the atmosphere, and with it the depth and insight of the ideal world around forms, incidents, and situations, of which, for the common view,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1984 - 860 pages
...observing with the imaginative faculty in modifying the objects observed; and above all the original gift of spreading the tone, the atmosphere, and with it...all the lustre, had dried up the sparkle and the dew drops.2 "To find no contradiction in the union of old and new; to contemplate the ANC'ENT of days and... | |
 | Robert F. Hobson - Conversation - 1985 - 340 pages
...observing with the imaginative faculty in modifying the objects observed; and above all the original gift of spreading the tone, the atmosphere and with it...bedimmed all the lustre, had dried up the sparkle and the dew-drops.'28 In a combination of old and new we feel the riddle of the world. With a childlike sense... | |
 | James S. Cutsinger - Christian literature, English - 1987 - 170 pages
...observing, with the imaginative faculty in modifying the objects observed; and above all the original gift of spreading the tone, the atmosphere, and with it...lustre, had dried up the sparkle and the dew drops. " Once again, the fusion this alchemist is aiming toward is one that transforms, that unites the "novel... | |
 | Peter J. Kitson, Thomas N. Corns - Autobiography - 1991 - 144 pages
...observing, with the imaginative faculty in modifying the objects observed; and above all the original gift of spreading the tone, the atmosphere, and with it...lustre, had dried up the sparkle and the dew drops. "To find no contradiction in the union of old and new; to contemplate the ANCIENT of days and all his... | |
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... the original gift of spreading the tone, the atmosphere, and with it the depth and height of the ideal world around forms, incidents, and situations, of which, for the common view, custom had bedimmed all the lustre, had dried up the sparkle and the... 
