Excursion

It furnished a hint to a living Poet to write what he entitles the Excursion, which tho 'it has very great merit, yet falls infinitely short of this animated Ode of Mr. Hughes.

The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753

Also, SUVs meet the same emissions standards as cars, so a brand new Excursion is less polluting than a 5 year old Geo.

Hydrogen Cars, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

The argumentative strategy of The Excursion is a form of means-extremes: the Wordsworthian Wanderer is able to coopt the Solitary's losses by sympathetically presenting imagined losses much greater, by presenting disillusions much more justified, than those of his opponent.

_Alastor_, Apostasy, and the Ecology of Criticism 1999

The following passage from Wordsworth's Excursion is pure enough art, and should therefore be 'without consequences,' as the Croceans would say, 'in the practical sphere': —

Unprintable 1969

The following passage from Wordsworth's Excursion is pure enough art, and should therefore be 'without consequences,' as the Croceans would say, 'in the practical sphere': —

Unprintable 1923

SOLEDAD O'BRIEN: Oh. MILES O'BRIEN: The Excursion was the one that Bill Ford called the "valdez."

CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2005 2005

SOLEDAD O'BRIEN: How (INAUDIBLE) that than the Excursion, which is the last -- isn't that's the last really ...

CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2005 2005

After his death the Prelude, finished in 1805, was published It had been kept back because the great projected poem of which it was to have been the preface, and of which The Excursion is a part, was never completed.

A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature 1853

There is, however, another and a very different species of club, infinitely more popular than any of the above, the operations of which are aboundingly visible throughout the warm and pleasant months of summer, and which may be, and sometimes is, called the Excursion

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 441 Volume 17, New Series, June 12, 1852 Various 1836

There is a great deal of good instruction, as well as deep thought, in his poetry; but there is not, I think, very clearly an evangelical spirit; indeed, the "Excursion," which is beautiful, is unsatisfactory to me in this respect.

A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England Eliza Southall