| William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 Seiten
...beinga join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge...said of the Poet, as Shakespeare hath said of man, " that he looks before and after." He is the rock of defence of human nature 5 an upholder and preserver,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 Seiten
...beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge...said of the Poet, as Shakespeare hath said of man, " that he looks before and after." He is the Fock of defence of human nature ; an upholder and preserver,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 Seiten
...beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge...said of the Poet, as Shakespeare hath said of man, " that he looks before and after." He is the rock of defence of human nature ; an upholder and preserver,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 Seiten
...beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge;...said of the Poet, as Shakespeare hath said of man, " that he looks before and after." He is the rock of defence of human nature ; an upholder and preserver,... | |
| William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 Seiten
...beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge;...said of the Poet, as Shakespeare hath said of man, '•* that he looks before and after." He is the rock of defence of human nature ; an upholder and... | |
| 1857 - 878 Seiten
...Poetry," says Wordsworth — and we shall venture to include within the term, the arts in general — " poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge...expression which is in the countenance of all science." " Every great poet," he likewise maintains, and therefore we would say, every great poet-artist, "... | |
| 1865 - 1194 Seiten
...•)• * Set, particularly, Macwilay's « Lay* of Ancient Home." t " F»"»-" "Poetry," says Wordsworth, "is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ;...science. Emphatically may it be said of the poet, as Shakspeare hath said of man, that 'he looks before and after.' He is the rock of defence for human... | |
| Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1882 - 856 Seiten
...dedicates its beauty to the sun ' — there is poetry in its birth." " Poetry," says Wordsworth, " is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ;...expression which is in the countenance of all science." " No man," says Coleridge, " was ever yet a great poet without being, at the same time, a profound... | |
| Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 Seiten
...beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge...science. Emphatically may it be said of the poet, as Shakspeare hath said of man, " that he looks before and after." He is the rock of defence of human... | |
| 1836 - 532 Seiten
...rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly cotnpnnion. Poetry is the hreath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned...is in the countenance of all science. Emphatically tuny it be said of the Poet, ns Shakspeare hath said of man, ' that he looks before and after.' He... | |
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