Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire;... A Defense of Poetry: Edited with Introd. and Notes - Página 46por Percy Bysshe Shelley, Albert Stanburrough Cook - 1890 - 82 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 páginas
...perhaps the most sincerely astonished at its manifestations ; for it is less their spirit than the spirit of the age. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended...understand not ; the trumpets which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire ; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 368 páginas
...perhaps the most sincerely astonished at its manifestations ; for it is less their spirit than the spirit of the age. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended...understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire ; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators... | |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1840 - 346 páginas
...a beautiful passage on the influence of the poetic spirit, he says — " Poets are the hiérophante of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the...; the words which express what they understand not ; tho trumpets which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not,... | |
| 1842 - 572 páginas
...of the awakening of a great people to work a beneficial change in opinion or institution it poetry. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration...understand not ; the trumpets which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." We have cited these... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 páginas
...manifestations, for it is less their spirit than the spirit of the age. Poets are the hiérophante Aï S = kl o ᓫb ;*> f $ jҲ Q ; ; q , k < ђ . j ... l!h̺4JBm mC ?n % ,3~` 6W5ʨ(e ,; 7 f not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...manifestations, for it is less their spirit than the spirit of the age. Poets are the hiérophante d assist, or relieve, or remember me ; but my friends,...out the wretched remains of life in my former prison not what they inspire ; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 366 páginas
...; Hence British poets, too, the priesthood shared, And every hallowed Druid was a bard.'' COWPEB. " Poets are the Hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration,...what they understand not, the trumpets which sing to hattle, and feel not what they inspire, the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 360 páginas
...; Hence British poets, too, the priesthood shared, And every hallowed Druid was a bard." COWPER. .' Poets are the Hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration,...what they understand not, the trumpets which sing to hattle, and feel not what they inspire, the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the... | |
| John William Lester - 1847 - 376 páginas
...year, we write " Plagiarisms." Would that it had been otherwise! POLL OK. " Poets are the hieroplmnts of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the...not ; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire ; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 252 páginas
...the poetic spirit, he says—" Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; themirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon...understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators... | |
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