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adeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
admiration
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From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
affect
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From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
andeterminerUS /æn/
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
anomaly
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From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
areauxiliary verbUS /ɑːr/
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
attaches
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From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
awe
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From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
Babes
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From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
beforeprepositionUS /bɪˈfɔːr/
earlier than; in front of
From this reading "The very image of Wordsworth," says De Quincey, for instance, "as I prefigured it to my own planet-struck eye, crushed my faculties as before Elijah or St. Paul."
best
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From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
brilliant
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From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
classed
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From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
conferring
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From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
contemporaries
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From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
content
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From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
couldmodal verbUS /kʊd/
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
critic
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From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
criticisms
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From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
crushed
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From this reading "The very image of Wordsworth," says De Quincey, for instance, "as I prefigured it to my own planet-struck eye, crushed my faculties as before Elijah or St. Paul."
day
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From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
De
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From this reading "The very image of Wordsworth," says De Quincey, for instance, "as I prefigured it to my own planet-struck eye, crushed my faculties as before Elijah or St. Paul."
descriptive
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From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
differentnounUS /ˈdifferent/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
discernible
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From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
doauxiliary verbUS /duː/
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
Elijah
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From this reading "The very image of Wordsworth," says De Quincey, for instance, "as I prefigured it to my own planet-struck eye, crushed my faculties as before Elijah or St. Paul."
evennounUS /even/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
exceptional
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From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
explanation
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From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
exponents
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From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
eye
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From this reading "The very image of Wordsworth," says De Quincey, for instance, "as I prefigured it to my own planet-struck eye, crushed my faculties as before Elijah or St. Paul."
faculties
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From this reading "The very image of Wordsworth," says De Quincey, for instance, "as I prefigured it to my own planet-struck eye, crushed my faculties as before Elijah or St. Paul."
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
form
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From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
graceful
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From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
greatnounUS /great/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
himpronounUS /hɪm/
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
How
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From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
IpronounUS /aɪ/
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading "The very image of Wordsworth," says De Quincey, for instance, "as I prefigured it to my own planet-struck eye, crushed my faculties as before Elijah or St. Paul."
image
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From this reading "The very image of Wordsworth," says De Quincey, for instance, "as I prefigured it to my own planet-struck eye, crushed my faculties as before Elijah or St. Paul."
importance
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From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
individual
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From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
insignificance
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From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
instance
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From this reading "The very image of Wordsworth," says De Quincey, for instance, "as I prefigured it to my own planet-struck eye, crushed my faculties as before Elijah or St. Paul."
isauxiliary verbUS /ɪz/
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
ItpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
known
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From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
less
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From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
lies
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From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
like
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From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
more
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From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
most
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From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
movement
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From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
mydeterminerUS /maɪ/
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading "The very image of Wordsworth," says De Quincey, for instance, "as I prefigured it to my own planet-struck eye, crushed my faculties as before Elijah or St. Paul."
NATURAL
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From this reading NATURAL RELIGION.
Nature
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From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
new
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From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
obvious
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From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading "The very image of Wordsworth," says De Quincey, for instance, "as I prefigured it to my own planet-struck eye, crushed my faculties as before Elijah or St. Paul."
ordernounUS /order/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
originators
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From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
other
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From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
outward
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From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
own
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From this reading "The very image of Wordsworth," says De Quincey, for instance, "as I prefigured it to my own planet-struck eye, crushed my faculties as before Elijah or St. Paul."
pages
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From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
Paul
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From this reading "The very image of Wordsworth," says De Quincey, for instance, "as I prefigured it to my own planet-struck eye, crushed my faculties as before Elijah or St. Paul."
pieces
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From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
planet-struck
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From this reading "The very image of Wordsworth," says De Quincey, for instance, "as I prefigured it to my own planet-struck eye, crushed my faculties as before Elijah or St. Paul."
poems
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From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
preceding
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From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
prefigured
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From this reading "The very image of Wordsworth," says De Quincey, for instance, "as I prefigured it to my own planet-struck eye, crushed my faculties as before Elijah or St. Paul."
productions
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From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
Quincey
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From this reading "The very image of Wordsworth," says De Quincey, for instance, "as I prefigured it to my own planet-struck eye, crushed my faculties as before Elijah or St. Paul."
redeeming
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From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
regarded
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From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
RELIGION
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From this reading NATURAL RELIGION.
religious
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From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
reserved
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From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
revelation
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From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
reviewers
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From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
say
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From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
says
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From this reading "The very image of Wordsworth," says De Quincey, for instance, "as I prefigured it to my own planet-struck eye, crushed my faculties as before Elijah or St. Paul."
sense
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From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
serious
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From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
simple
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From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
simply
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From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
Sixpence
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From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
slightest
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From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
soconjunctionUS /soʊ/
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
some
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From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
somethingpronounUS /ˈsʌmθɪŋ/
a thing, without saying which
From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
Song
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From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
speak
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From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
St
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From this reading "The very image of Wordsworth," says De Quincey, for instance, "as I prefigured it to my own planet-struck eye, crushed my faculties as before Elijah or St. Paul."
sustained
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From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
terms
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From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
thempronounUS /ðem/
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
thisdeterminerUS /ðɪs/
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
tone
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From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
treat
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From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
usually
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From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
very
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From this reading "The very image of Wordsworth," says De Quincey, for instance, "as I prefigured it to my own planet-struck eye, crushed my faculties as before Elijah or St. Paul."
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
way
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From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
well
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From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
whileconjunctionUS /waɪl/
during the time that
From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
willmodal verbUS /wɪl/
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
Wood
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From this reading How was it that poems so simple in outward form that the reviewers of the day classed them with the _Song of Sixpence_, or at best with the _Babes in the Wood_, could affect a critic like De Quincey,--I do not say with admiration, but with this exceptional sense of revelation and awe?
Wordsworth
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From this reading It will have been obvious from the preceding pages, as well as from the tone of other criticisms on Wordsworth, that his exponents are not content to treat his poems on Nature simply as graceful descriptive pieces, but speak of him in terms usually reserved for the originators of some great religious movement.
works
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From this reading The explanation of this anomaly lies, as is well known, in something new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; something more or less discernible in most of his works, and redeeming even some of the slightest of them from insignificance, while conferring on the more serious and sustained pieces an importance of a different order from that which attaches to even the most brilliant productions of his contemporaries.
