| Massimo Verdicchio, Robert Burch - 2002 - 232 psl.
...causes, unknown to former times, are now acting to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind. . . . The most effective of these causes are the great national...uniformity of their occupations produces a craving or extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. William... | |
| Riccardo Dottori - 2003 - 452 psl.
...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...which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies.4 A few years later, in 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who contributed to the momentous collection... | |
| Simon Joyce, Professor Simon Joyce - 2003 - 288 psl.
...exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor": predominant among such causes, he names "the great national events which are daily taking...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies." 4 As Dana Brand has argued, Wordsworth is offering an early critique of a modern urban culture here,... | |
| Susan Sontag - 2004 - 146 psl.
...Wordsworth, in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads, denounced the corruption of sensibility produced by "the great national events which are daily taking...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies." This process of overstimulation acts "to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind" and "reduce it... | |
| Jon Mee - 2005 - 342 psl.
...combined force to blunt the discriminating power of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor ....national events which are daily taking place, and the encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving... | |
| William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2003 - 356 psl.
...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 causes are the great national events8 which are daily taking place, and the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity... | |
| Jon Mee - 2003 - 348 psl.
...exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage 16 Bewell, Wordsworth and the Enlightenment, 117. torpor . . . The most effective of these causes are...national events which are daily taking place, and the encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving... | |
| Lucy Newlyn - 2003 - 436 psl.
...daily taking place, and the encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of theit occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies'. Serting the tone for a subsequent (high Romantic) dissociation of genius from urban conditions, Wordsworth... | |
| Frank Lentricchia, Jody McAuliffe - 2007 - 198 psl.
...nothing other than the crime of originality. We are sick, and shall become sicker. Our "savage torpor" produces a craving for "extraordinary incident, which...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies." Craving for stimulation of the "gross and violent" sort stems, it is thought, Wordsworth to the Unabomber,... | |
| Tim Milnes - 2003 - 278 psl.
...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 pernicious aspect of which is 'a craving for extraordinary incident which the rapid communication of... | |
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