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; the... Prose Works from the Original Editions - Página 38por Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1888Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 368 páginas
...than the spirit of the age. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon...ARTS, AND THE MANNERS OF THE ATHENIANS. a .^Fragment.* THE4ieiic4_whichJntervened between the birth /of Pericles and the death of Aristotle, is undoubtI edly,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 páginas
...than the spirit of the age. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon...LITERATURE, THE ARTS, AND THE MANNERS OF THE ATHENIANS. SI THE period which intervened between the birth of Pericles and the death of Aristotle, is undoubtedly,... | |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1840 - 346 páginas
...poetic spirit, he says — " Poets are the hiérophante of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon...; 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,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...than the spirit of the age. Poets are the hiérophante of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors friends, my family, and relations are all dead, and...me more pleasing than the most splendid palace : world.' 1 •WILLIAM COWPEB. WILLIAM COWPEB, ' the most popular poet of his generation, and the best... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 páginas
...than the spirit of the age. Poets are the hiérophante of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors Q ; ; q , k < ђ . j $ sbӚ h ̿V R x V t؏ɘ)fh ... l!h̺4JBm mC ?n % ,3~` 6W5ʨ(e ,; 7 f world.' WILLIAM COWPER. WILLIAM COWPER, ' the most popular poet of his generation, and the best of... | |
| 1842 - 572 páginas
...opinion or institution it poetry. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon...which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." We have cited these passages for the weight... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 246 páginas
...than the spirit of the age. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon...moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. 14 ESSAY ON THE LITERATURE, THE ARTS, AND THE MANNERS OF THE ATHENIANS. 9 JFrajjmcnt.* THE period... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 páginas
...gigal» tic shadows which futurity castsupqn_the_Dresent ж the words which express what they understanfi not ; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel...moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. .14 ESSAY ON THE LITERATURE, THE ARTS, AND THE MANNERS OF THE ATHENIANS. a JFrajpnent.» THE... | |
| John William Lester - 1847 - 376 páginas
...been otherwise! POLL OK. " Poets are the hieroplmnts of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon...moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." — SHELLEY. A FRIDAY, on the 19th October, now some fifty years back, — Glasgow, as ever,... | |
| 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...moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." THE PROLOGUE IN HEAVEN. FREQUENTLY as poets have made use of the music of the spheres, they... | |
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