 Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.  The Eclectic Review - Side 153redigert av - 1852Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | William Wordsworth - 1836 - 368 sider
...rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breat!i and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned...expression which is in the countenance of all Science. Emphatically may it be said of the Poet, as Shakspeare hath said of man, ' that he looks before and... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - 536 sider
...our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge—it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science. Emphatically may it be said of the poet. as Shakspeare huth said of man, ' that he looks before and... | |
 | 1839 - 538 sider
...human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as a visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge...expression which is in the countenance of all science. Emphatically may it be said of the poet, as Shakspeare hath said of man, ' that he looks before and... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1839 - 554 sider
...human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as a visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is iu the countenance of all science. Emphatically may it be said of the poet, as Shaksptrare hath aaid... | |
 | 1840 - 528 sider
...poetry of this class that Mr. Wordsworth refers when he says, with an exquisite felicity of language, " Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the empassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science." It is in this class of poetry too,... | |
 | Margaret Lawrence Jones - 1841 - 132 sider
...beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit* of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned * It is interesting to compare a passage in the same Preface where Mr. Wordsworth speaks of poetry... | |
 | 1842 - 610 sider
...beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge...expression which is in the countenance of all science. Emphatically may it be said of the Poet, as Shakspeare hath said of man, ' that he looks before and... | |
 | 1843 - 592 sider
...CITY OF LONDON MAGAZINE. VOL. I. JANUARY, 18J3. No. IV. STRAY THOUGHTS ON POETS AND POETRY— No. 1. " Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge...expression which is in the countenance of all science." — WORDSWOBTH. THIS is a beautiful world that we dwell in — but how few are they who know it. To... | |
 | 1857 - 602 sider
...Poetry," says Wordsworth — and we shall venture to include within the term the arts in general — " poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge,...expression which is in the countenance of all science." " Every great poet," he likewise maintains, and therefore we would say, every great poet-artist, "... | |
 | 1892 - 890 sider
...and science. " Poetry," he wrote in the preface to the second edition of the " Lyrical Ballads," " is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ;...expression which is in the countenance of all science. . . . If the labors of men of science should ever create any material revolution, direct or indirect,... | |
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