 | Thomas Bird Mosher - 1907 - 472 páginas
...prose and verse is inadmissible in accurate philosophy. Sounds as well as thoughts have relation both between each other and towards that which they represent,...the language of poets has ever affected a sort of 3 uniform and harmonious recurrence of sound, without which it were not poetry, and which is scarcely... | |
 | 1893 - 884 páginas
...mistakes passion for power. " The language of poets," says Shelley, " has always affected a certain uniform and harmonious recurrence of sound, without which it were not poetry ; " and it is the sustained effort to secure this balanced harmony, this magnificent work within limits, which... | |
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Sounds as well as thoughts have relation both between each other and towards that which they represent, and a perception of the order of those relations has always been found connected with a perception of the order of the relations of thought. 
