More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced... Advertiser Notes and Queries - Página 751883Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1862 - 382 páginas
...much to the same effect as Cervantes, that " poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; the impassioned expression, which is in the countenance of all science :" and that the poet's subjects " will naturally, and on fit occasion, lead him to passions, the language... | |
| Edward Churton - 1862 - 380 páginas
...much to the same effect as Cervantes, that " poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; the impassioned expression, which is in the countenance of all science :" and that the poet's subjects " will naturally, and on fit occasion, lead him to passions, the language... | |
| 1864 - 744 páginas
...when, in his preface, lie Bays that " poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science." And it is "the vital soul" in the poet which penetrates into this, and reads it off for other men. This,... | |
| 1864 - 560 páginas
...when, in his preface, he says that "poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science." And it is "the vital soul" in the poet which penetrates into this, and reads it off for other men. This,... | |
| Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - 1885 - 972 páginas
...discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. ... Most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry." When that time arrives, if "the survival of the fittest " should include the pulpit, there will no... | |
| John Campbell Shairp - 1872 - 432 páginas
...when, in his preface, he says that ' poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science.' And it is ' the vital soul' in the poet which penetrates into this, and reads it off for other men. This,... | |
| Charles Pebody - 1872 - 460 páginas
...move his wings. '" " Poetry/' he said finely, " is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge. It is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science;" and, in his opinion, the appropriate business of poetry, her privilege and her duty, is " to treat of things... | |
| 1880 - 400 páginas
...men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain...and what is a countenance without its expression. Again, Wordsworth finely and truly calls poetry " the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge:" our... | |
| 1880 - 402 páginas
...men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain...and what is a countenance without its expression. Again, Wordsworth finely and truly calls poetry " the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge :" our... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 páginas
...men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain...' and what is a countenance without its expression ? Again, Wordsworth finely and truly calls poetry ' the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge :... | |
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