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" What were virtue, love, patriotism, friendship — what were the scenery of this beautiful universe which we inhabit; what were our consolations on this side of the grave — and what were our aspirations beyond it, if poetry did not ascend to bring light... "
The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, how First Brought ... - Página 136
por Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880
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A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the ...

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...
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Littell's Living Age, Volumen208

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,...
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Essays, Letters from Abroad

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,...
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Blanche de Bourbon, [and other poems].

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...
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The Lover's Seat: Kathemérina; Or, Common Things in Relation to Beauty ...

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...
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Leaves from an Invalid's Journal, and Poems

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...
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Irish Monthly, Volumen43

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...
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Shelley

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...
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Moral Education: Its Laws and Methods

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...
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Studies in English Literature: Being Typical Selections of British and ...

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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