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" ... pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the Universe, and habitually impelled... "
Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight - Page 276
by Half hours - 1856
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Lyrical Ballads: With Pastoral and Other Poems

William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...is in him ; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the Universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them. To thesequalities he has added a disposition to be affected more than other men by absent things as if...
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Lyrical Ballads,: With Pastoral and Other Poems. In Two Volumes, Volume 1

William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ballads - 1805 - 284 pages
...is in him ; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the Universe, and habitually impelled to create...events, yet (especially in those parts of the general 8 sympathy which are pleasing and delightful) do more nearly resemble the passions produced by real...
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Constable's miscellany of original and selected publications

Constable and co, ltd - 1826 - 734 pages
...is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the universe, and habitually impelled to create...ability of conjuring up in himself passions which are far indeed from being the same as those produced by real events, yet (especially in those parts of...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 4

William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...is in him ; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the Universe, and habitually impelled to create...affected more than other men by absent things as if they wen present ; an ability of conjuring up in himself passions, which are indeed far from being the same...
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Life of Robert Burns

John Gibson Lockhart - Poets, Scottish - 1828 - 324 pages
...is in him ; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the universe, and habitually impelled to create...ability of conjuring up in himself passions which are far indeed from being the same as those produced by real events, yet (especially in those parts of...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...is in him; delighting to cootempl.ite similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the Universe, and habitually impelled to create...qualities he has added, a disposition to be affected morr than other men by absent things as if they were present; an ability of conjuring up in himself...
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Life of Robert Burns

John Gibson Lockhart - Poets, Scottish - 1830 - 340 pages
...passions as manifested in the goings-on of the universe, and habitually impelled to create them where be does not find them. To these qualities he has added...as if they were present ; an ability of conjuring np in himself passions which are far indeed from being the same as those produced by real events, yet...
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Life of Robert Burns

John Gibson Lockhart - 1831 - 338 pages
...in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on ot" the universe, and habitually impelled to create them...ability of conjuring up in himself passions which are far indeed from being the same as those produced by real events, yet (especially in those parts of...
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The New-York Review, Volume 4

1839 - 538 pages
...is in him ; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions atr manifested in the goings on of the universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them." . . . . " The knowledge both of the poet nnd the man of science is pleasure ; but the knowledge of...
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The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 29

Methodist Church - 1847 - 662 pages
...own rapt mind into that of his reader ;" (Hazlitt ;) the ability to conjure up in the minds of men "passions, which are, indeed, far from being the same as those produced by real events, but which yet do more strongly resemble those passions, than anything which, from the motions of their...
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