Yet this impulse is losing its force, and even Lord Byron himself repudiated, in the latter years of his life, the poetical taste which he had espoused and propagated. The constitution of this writer's mind is not difficult to understand, and sufficiently... Philip Van Artevelde: A Dramatic Romance - Página xivpor Sir Henry Taylor - 1834 - 593 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1843 - 632 páginas
...to say. From this elementary truth, he proceeded to the more abstruse and questionable tenet, that ' no man can be a very great poet who is not ' also a great philosopher.' To what muse the highest honour is justly due, and what exercises of the poetic faculty ought to command,... | |
| 1834 - 566 páginas
...Taylor will be thought to have advanced a startling proposition, though it is a very old truth, that no man can be a very great poet, who is not also a great philosopher. The philosophy which is found in the page of Shakspeare is, indeed, as wonderful as his genius. It... | |
| Sir Henry Taylor - 1835 - 524 páginas
...in their effusions ; dwelling, as they did, in a region of poetical sentiment which did not perrnit them to walk upon the common earth, or to breathe...narrow limits. He was in knowledge merely a man of Belles- | ,- '; lettres ; nor does he appear at any time to have betaken himself to such studies as... | |
| THE EDINBURGH REVIEW OR CRITICAL JOURNAL - 1843 - 672 páginas
...to say. From this elementary truth, he proceeded to the more abstruse and questionable tenet, that ' no man can be a very great poet who is not ' also a great philosopher.' To what muse the highest honour is justly due, and what exercises of the poetic faculty ought to command,... | |
| Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1846 - 350 páginas
...to say. From this elementary truth, he proceeded to the more abstruse and questionable tenet, that "no man can be a very great poet who is not also a great philosopher." To what muse the highest honour is justly due, and what exercises of the poetic faculty ought to command,... | |
| Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1846 - 362 páginas
...to say. From this elementary truth, he proceeded to the more abstruse and questionable tenet, that "no man can be a very great poet who is not also a great philosopher." To what muse the highest honour is justly due, and what exercises of the poetic faculty ought to command,... | |
| Douglas Jerrold - 1848 - 576 páginas
...understand, and sufficiently explains the growth of his taste. " Had he united a philosophical intellect with his peculiarly poetical temperament, he would probably...very great poet who is not also a great philosopher." And again, amidst some most just and penetrating remarks, he thus briefly, but ably, characterises... | |
| DOUGLAS JERROLD - 1848 - 578 páginas
...understand, and sufficiently explains the growth of his taste. " Had he united a philosophical intellect with his peculiarly poetical temperament, he would probably...very great poet who is not also a great philosopher." And again, amidst some most just and penetrating remarks, he thus briefly, but ably, characterises... | |
| Douglas Jerrold - 1848 - 578 páginas
...peculiarly poetical temperament, he would probably have been the greatest poet of his age. But 110 man can be a very great poet who is not also a great philosopher." And again, amidst some most just and penetrating remarks, he thus briefly, but ably, characterises... | |
| 1852 - 354 páginas
...to say. From this elementary truth, he proceeded to the more abstruse and questionable tenet, that "no man can be a very great poet who is not also a great philosopher." To what muse the highest honour is justly due, and what exercises of the poetic faculty ought to command,... | |
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