 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
 | 1849 - 838 sider
...beauty, its pathos and its passion. Poetry is indeed " the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science." The last and deepest insight we get into nature, is when we read it religiously, as a divine revelation,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 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 raid of man, 1 that he looks before and... | |
 | 1845 - 572 sider
...ungentle apathy, or of insensibility to the practical claims of life. For poetry, it has been well said, is the ' impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science,' and the apparent absence of connexion between high things and low disappears before the faculty which... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 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 Shakspere hath said of man, " that he looks before and... | |
 | Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 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... | |
 | 1849 - 848 sider
...beauty, its pathos and its passion. Poetry is indeed " the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science." The last and deepest insight we get into nature, is when we read it relii/iousty, as a divine revelation,... | |
 | John Wright - 1853 - 144 sider
...little lustre on his indomitable courage. Not inconsiderately, then, was it said by Wordsworth, that " poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge...expression which is in the countenance of all science." And once more recurring to the subject of astronomy, with a conviction that poetry * Joanna Baillie.... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 472 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... | |
 | 1857 - 820 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, "... | |
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