 | 1862 - 382 pagine
...much to the same effect as Cervantes, that " poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; the impassioned 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... | |
 | Edward Churton - 1862 - 378 pagine
...much to the same effect as Cervantes, that " poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; the impassioned 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... | |
 | 1864 - 560 pagine
...when, in his preface, he says that "poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science." And it is "the vital soul" in the poet which penetrates into this, and reads it off for other men. This,... | |
 | 1864 - 744 pagine
...when, in his preface, lie Bays that " poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science." And it is "the vital soul" in the poet which penetrates into this, and reads it off for other men. This,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1889 - 574 pagine
...discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, and to sustain us . . . . Wordsworth finely and truly calls poetry ' the breath...and finer spirit of all knowledge ; ' our religion parades evidences such a* those on which the popular mind relics now ; our philosophy plume* ' itself... | |
 | Charles Pebody - 1872 - 458 pagine
...move his wings. '" " Poetry/' he said finely, " is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge. It is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science;" and, in his opinion, the appropriate business of poetry, her privilege and her duty, is " to treat of things... | |
 | Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - 1885 - 972 pagine
...have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. ... Most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry." When that time arrives, if "the survival of the fittest " should include the pulpit, there will no... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - 1872 - 432 pagine
...when, in his preface, he says that ' poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science.' And it is ' the vital soul' in the poet which penetrates into this, and reads it off for other men. This,... | |
 | 1880 - 400 pagine
...console us, to sustain us. Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete ; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be...religion, parading evidences, such as those on which the popular mind relies now ; our philosophy, pluming itself on its reasonings about causation and finite... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 pagine
...console us, to sustain us. Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be...religion, parading evidences such as those on which the popular mind relies now ; our philosophy, pluming itself on its reasonings about causation and finite... | |
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More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete ; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced... 
