| Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 496 sider
...possesses over one who knows nothing. A poet in our times is a semi-barbarian in a civilized community. He lives in the days that are past. His ideas, thoughts,...himself like a mole, to throw up the barren hillocks of his Cimmerian labours. The philosophic mental tranquillity which looks round with an equal eye on all... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 444 sider
...possesses over one who knows nothing. A poet in our times is a semi-barbarian in a civilized community. He lives in the days that are past. His ideas, thoughts,...himself like a mole, to throw up the barren hillocks of his Cimmerian labours. The philosophic mental tranquillity which looks round with an equal eye on all... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 438 sider
...possesses over one who knows nothing. A poet in our times is a semi- barbarian in a civilized community. He lives in the days that are past. His ideas, thoughts,...himself like a mole, to throw up the barren hillocks of his Cimmerian labours. The philosophic mental tranquillity which looks round with an equal eye on all... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley, Albert Stanburrough Cook - 1890 - 120 sider
...times is a semi-barbarian in a civilized community. He lives in the days that are past. His ideas, 5 thoughts, feelings, associations, are all with barbarous...the thicker is the darkness of antiquated barbarism 10 in which he buries himself like a mole, to throw up the barren hillocks of his Cimmerian labors.... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1891 - 174 sider
...possesses over one who knows nothing. A poet in our times is a semi-barbarian in a civilised community. He lives in the days that are past. His ideas, thoughts,...himself like a mole, to throw up the barren hillocks of his Cimmerian labours. The philosophic mental tranquillity which looks round with an equal eye on all... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 124 sider
...times is a semi-barbarian in a civilized com-, munity. He lives in the days that are past. His ideas, 5 thoughts, feelings, associations, are all with barbarous...himself like a mole, to throw up the barren hillocks of his Cimmerian labors. The philosophic mental tranquillity which looks round with an equal eye on all... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 124 sider
...times is a semi-barbarian in a civilized community. He lives in the days that are past. His ideas, s thoughts, feelings, associations, are all with barbarous...the thicker is the darkness of antiquated barbarism 10 in which he buries himself like a mole, to throw up the barren hillocks of his Cimmerian labors.... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1906 - 438 sider
...magazine critics'. He declares that — A poet in our times is a semi-barbarian in a civilised community. His ideas, thoughts, feelings, associations, are all...superstitions. The march of his intellect is like that of the crab, backward. The brighter the light diffused around him by the progress of reason, the thicker... | |
| Arthur Clutton-Brock - 1909 - 348 sider
...poetry is obsolete. " A poet in our times," he says, " is a semi-barbarian in / a civilised community. He lives in the days that are past. His ideas, thoughts,...obsolete customs, and exploded superstitions." " The highest inspirations of poetry can never make a philosopher, nor a statesman, nor in any class of life... | |
| Bliss Perry - 1920 - 430 sider
...1891. A few sentences must suffice: "A poet in our times is a semi-barbarian in a civilized community. He lives in the days that are past. His ideas, thoughts,...intellect is like that of a crab, backward. . . . The highest inspirations of poetry are resolvable into three ingredients: the rant of unregulated passion,... | |
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