| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 páginas
...side of the grave — and what were our aspirations beyond it, if poetry did not ascend to bring light and fire from those eternal regions where the owl-winged...reasoning, a power to be exerted according •TO the dull'l munition of the will. A man cannot say, ' 1 will compose poctrv." The greatest poet even cannot... | |
| 1896 - 854 páginas
...side of the grave — and what were our aspirations beyond it, if poetry did not ascend to bring light and fire from those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar?" Whom has not poetry rescued from his "own spirit's hurtling harms"? Who has not been soothed by Wordsworth,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 páginas
...and fire fronTthose eternal regions where the owl-wmged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar? j Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted...poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it ; for the jniud in creation is as a . fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an / inconstant wind,... | |
| William H. Jones - 1855 - 280 páginas
...of the grave, — and what our aspirations beyond it,' — if poetry did not ascend to bring light and fire from those eternal regions where the owlwinged...faculty of calculation dare not ever soar. Poetry makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world ; it redeems from decay the visitations... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 418 páginas
...scenery of * Charming. this beautiful universe which we inhabit, if poetry did not ascend to bring light and fire from those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar?" To enumerate its results thus is to praise sufficiently, I think, this common thing existing every... | |
| Mrs. E. N. Gladding - 1858 - 258 páginas
...for that which animates it." "What would our aspirations be, if poetry did not ascend to bring light and fire from those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar?" But where am I going? Thou art indeed a blessed resource to me, my journal ! I have been so weary to-day... | |
| 1915 - 826 páginas
...side of the grave ; and what were our aspirations beyond it; if poetry did not ascend to bring light and fire from those eternal regions where the owl,winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar? . . . Poets can colour all that they combine with the evanescent hues of this ethereal world, [their... | |
| John Addington Symonds - 1879 - 216 páginas
...ascend to bring light and fire from those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of caleulation dare not ever soar ? Poetry is not like reasoning,...to be exerted according to the determination of the w ill. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind... | |
| Joseph Rodes Buchanan - 1882 - 422 páginas
...side of the grave, and what were our aspirations beyond it, if poetry did not descend to bring light and fire from those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not even soar ?" In this striking passage the word poetry is used with "poetic license," to express all... | |
| William Swinton - 1886 - 690 páginas
...of the grave, and what were our aspirations beyond it, if poetry did not as- 15 cend to bring light and fire from those eternal regions where the owl-winged...The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in3o creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens... | |
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