All high poetry is infinite ; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. Veil after veil may be undrawn, and the inmost naked beauty of the meaning never exposed. A great poem is a fountain for ever overflowing with the waters of... Blackwood's Magazine - Seite 5031924Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1888 - 426 Seiten
...century shone forth from republican Italy, as from a heaven, into the darkness of the benighted world. His very words are instinct with spirit ; each is...covered in the ashes of their birth, and pregnant with a lightning which has yet found no conductor. All high poetry is infinite ; it is as the first , \... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1889 - 296 Seiten
...exalted content which extends itself over all thoughts and actions with which it coexists." And again, " All high Poetry is infinite ; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. Veil after veil may be undrawn, and the inmost naked beauty of the meaning never exposed. A great poem... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley, Albert Stanburrough Cook - 1890 - 120 Seiten
...is corruption." " Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of that pleasure which exists in pain." " All high poetry is infinite ; it is as the first acorn, which contains all oaks potentially." But to continue to quote would be to repeat the Essay in the Introduction.... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 124 Seiten
...century shone forth from republican Italy, as from a heaven, into the darkness of the benighted world. His very words are instinct with spirit; each is as...covered in the ashes of their birth, and pregnant with a lightning which has yet found no conductor. All high poetry is infinite ; it is as the first acorn,... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1891 - 306 Seiten
...exalted content which extends itself over all thoughts and actions with which it coexists." And again, " All high Poetry is infinite ; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. Veil after veil may be undrawn, and the inmost naked beauty of the meaning never exposed. A great poem... | |
| Ernest Rhys - 1897 - 250 Seiten
...century shone forth from republican Italy, as from a heaven, into the darkness of the benighted world. His very words are instinct with spirit ; each is...first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. Veil after veil may be undrawn, and the inmost naked beauty of the meaning never exposed. A great poem... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1894 - 358 Seiten
...exalted content which extends itself over all thoughts and actions with which it co-exists." And again, " All high Poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. Veil after veil may be undrawn, and the inmost naked beauty of the meaning never exposed. A great poem... | |
| Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 330 Seiten
...century shone forth from republican Italy, as from a heaven, into the darkness of the benighted world. His very words are instinct with spirit; each is as...first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. Veil after veil may be undrawn, and the inmost naked beauty of the meaning never exposed. A great poem... | |
| Annie Barnett - 1900 - 1060 Seiten
...century shone forth from republican Italy, as from a heaven into the darkness of the benighted world. His very words are instinct with spirit ; each is...first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. Veil after veil may be undrawn, and the inmost naked beauty of the meaning never exposed. A great poem... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1901 - 286 Seiten
...quicken (AS), to make quick or alive, the original use of the word. 65. So Shelley wrote of Dante : "His very words are instinct with spirit, each is...with the lightning which has yet found no conductor." 69. The finest expression of this prophetic mood in Shelley is the last chorus of Hellas, " The world's... | |
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