| 1829 - 1008 Seiten
...what Prose ath no voice to utter. She is (as Wordsworth himself elsewhere most beautifully says) " the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge — the impassioned...expression, which is in the countenance of all science." Is it not a contradiction thus to describe her, yet deny that she speaks a language accordantwith her... | |
| 1834 - 512 Seiten
...philosophy can be the field of emotion, she can be poetic. Thus we give poetry an illimitable range. " She is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge: the...expression which is in the countenance of all science." There is impassioned poetry in astronomy, and Milton breathed it. There is impassioned poetry in botany,... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 426 Seiten
...Prose hath no voice to utter. She is (as Wordsworth himself elsewhere most beautifully says) " the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge — the impassioned...expression, which is in the countenance of all science." Is it not a contradiction thus to describe her, yet deny that she speaks a language accordant with... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1887 - 490 Seiten
...amplitude of mind, And Reason in her most exalted mood." In his preface to his Poems, he calls poetry the " breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; the impassioned...expression which is in the countenance of all science." As the human countenance has expressions and spiritual meanings which are beyond physiology to explain,... | |
| 1842 - 572 Seiten
...Coleridge and Wordsworth have long taught, the true antithesis to poetry is not prose, but science. " Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of " all knowledge...impassioned expression which is in the " countenance of science/' Thoughts do and must abound in all good poetry, but they are there not for their own sake,... | |
| 1849 - 838 Seiten
...its interior and spiritual meaning, its beauty, its pathos and its passion. Poetry is indeed " the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; the impassioned...expression which is in the countenance of all science." The last and deepest insight we get into nature, is when we read it religiously, as a divine revelation,... | |
| 1849 - 848 Seiten
...its interior and spiritual meaning, its beauty, its pathos and its passion. Poetry is indeed " the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; the impassioned...expression which is in the countenance of all science." The last and deepest insight we get into nature, is when we read it relii/iousty, as a divine revelation,... | |
| John Clark Ferguson - 1856 - 90 Seiten
...one who feels great truths and utters them." Wordsworth in one of his essays depicts poetry as " the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge, the impassioned...expression, which is in the countenance of all science." " Poetry," says Shelley, " lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar things... | |
| Bridget Margaret Sortain - 1861 - 476 Seiten
...Philosophy can be the field of emotion, she can be poetic. Thus we give Poetry an illimitable range. She is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge — the impassioned expression of all science. There is impassioned poetry in astronomy, and Milton breathed it. There is impassioned... | |
| 1862 - 382 Seiten
...which men express their purposes in prose. But he says also, much to the same effect as Cervantes, that " poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all...expression, which is in the countenance of all science :" and that the poet's subjects " will naturally, and on fit occasion, lead him to passions, the language... | |
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