The cultivation of poetry is never more to be desired than at periods when, from an excess of the selfish and calculating principle, the accumulation of the materials of external life exceed the quantity of the power of assimilating them to the internal... Prose Works from the Original Editions - Página 31por Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1888Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 368 páginas
...and order, which may be called the beautiful and the good. The cultivation of poetry is never more to be desired than at periods when, from an excess...then become too unwieldy for that which animates it. Poetry is indeed something divine. It is at once the centre and circumference of knowledge ; it is... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 páginas
...may be called the beautiful and the good. The cultivation of poetry is never more to be desired then at periods when, from an excess of the selfish and...assimilating them to the internal laws of human nature. Tilt1 body has then become TOO unwieldy lor that which ^pimates it. — Poetry is indeed something... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 páginas
...rhythm and order which may be called the beautiful and the good. The cultivation of poetry is never more to be desired than at periods when, from an excess...then become too unwieldy for that which animates it. * Poetry is indeed something divine. It is at once tlte centre and circumference of knowledge ; it... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 páginas
...rhythm and order which may be called the beautiful and the good. The cultivation of poetry is never more to be desired than at periods when, from an excess...then become too unwieldy for that which animates it. Poetry is indeed something divine. It is at once the centre and circumference of knowledge ; it is... | |
| William H. Jones - 1855 - 280 páginas
...of the little world of self. 1 Shelley's ' Essays,' vol. i. The cultivation of poetry is never more to be desired than at periods when, from an excess...has then become too unwieldy for that which animates it.1 What were virtue, love, patriotism, friendship, — what were the scenery of this beautiful universe... | |
| Mrs. E. N. Gladding - 1858 - 258 páginas
...the visible incarnation, are the God and Mammon of the world. The cultivation of poetry is never more to be desired than at periods when, from an excess...then become too unwieldy for that which animates it." "What would our aspirations be, if poetry did not ascend to bring light and fire from those eternal... | |
| William Stigand - 1875 - 548 páginas
...more to be desired than at periods when, from an excess of the selfish and calculating principles, the accumulation of the materials of external life...assimilating them to the internal laws of human nature.' Indeed, so far as that ideal is concerned, which animated the growth of modern society in emerging... | |
| William Stigand - 1875 - 490 páginas
...visible emanation, are the God and Mammon of the world. ****** ' The cultivation of poetry is never more to be desired than at periods when, from an excess of the selfish and calculating principles, the accumulation of the materials of external life exceed the quantity of the power of... | |
| John Addington Symonds - 1878 - 424 páginas
...rhythm and order which may be called the beautiful and the good. The cultivation of poetry is never more to be desired than at periods when, from an excess...then become too unwieldy for that which animates it. Poetry is indeed something divine. It ia at once the centre and circumference of knowledge ; it is... | |
| John Addington Symonds - 1879 - 216 páginas
...rhythm and order which may be called the beautiful and the good. The cultivation of poetry is never more to be desired than at periods when, from an excess...then become too unwieldy for that which animates it. Poetry is indeed something divine. It is at once the centre and circumference of knowledge; it is that... | |
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