 For a multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind; and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The most effective of these...  The Quarterly Review - Page 991876Full view - About this book
 | Alison Hickey - 1997 - 268 pages
...trivial ostentation: one thinks of Wordsworth's criticism in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads of the "craving for extraordinary incident which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies" and of the "frantic novels, sickly and stupid German Tragedies, and deluges of idle and extravagant... | |
 | James Chandler - 1999 - 616 pages
...(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974). Wordsworth's own list ot "the most effective of these causes" includes "the great national events which are daily taking...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies" (1 :28). 72. John Stuart Mill, "Letter to Gustave d'Eichthal, 30 November 1 83 1 ," in Collected Ili>rfa,... | |
 | Bernhard Kettemann, Georg Marko - 1999 - 330 pages
...force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies" (1983: 124). James Wright meditates on the truth of Wordsworth's plea for poetry almost two centuries... | |
 | Bernhard Kettemann, Georg Marko - 1999 - 330 pages
...force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies" (1983:124). James Wright meditates on the truth of Wordsworth's plea for poetry almost two centuries... | |
 | Stewart Justman - 1999 - 180 pages
...journalism with the coffee bean. The worst of the coarsening forces at work, writes Wordsworth in 1800, are the great national events which are daily taking...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. 2 If the quiet mood in which poetry arises, according to Wordsworth, seems contrary to the agitation... | |
 | Geoffrey H. Hartman, Professor Geoffrey H Hartman - 1999 - 348 pages
...be stimulated by ordinary sights and events, by "common life" and "elementary feelings," because of "the great national events which are daily taking...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies." He also lambasted, for good measure, "frantic novels, sickly and stupid German tragedies, and deluges... | |
 | Paul Keen - 1999 - 318 pages
...William Wordsworth refers to 'the great national events which are daily taking place, and the encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity...which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies'.21 The attempts of authors (many of whom were involved in the 'great national events' of... | |
 | Anne Quéma - 1999 - 248 pages
...national events which are daily taking place, and the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where die uniformity of their occupations produces a craving...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have... | |
 | Laurence Coupe - 2000 - 346 pages
...force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all volun-tary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have... | |
 | Fred Inglis - 2000 - 234 pages
...combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. No doubt he was right, and would be even more right two hundred years later. His malediction, I suppose,... | |
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