...would give promises only of transitory flashes and a meteoric power; is DEPTH, and ENERGY of THOUGHT. No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at...human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language. In Shakspeare's poems, the creative power, and the intellectual energy wrestle as in a war embrace. Each...

...the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science." " No man," says Coleridge, " was ever yet a great poet without being, at the same...profound philosopher ; for poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, and language." " There...

...would give promises only of transitory flashes and a meteoric power, is DEPTH, and ENERGY of THOUGHT. No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at...profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragran<• y of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emo23 tions, language. In Sbakspeare's...

...would give promises only of transitory flashes and a meteoric power, is DEPTH, and ENERGY of THOUGHT. No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound'philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts,...

...fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language, — and that no man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher — we should certainly, reasoning from verse to prose, à priori, have said, that such a mind as Milton's,...

...father's garden — One that did force your valiant son to yield,"] &c. — ED. * " In Shakspeare's Poems the creative power and the intellectual energy wrestle as in a war-embrace. Each in its excess of strength seems to threaten the extinction of the other. At length,...

...his father's gardenOne that did force your valiant son to yield,"] &c. — ED. * " In Shakspeare's Poems the creative power and the intellectual energy wrestle as in a war-embrace. Each in its excess of strength seems to threaten the extinction of the other. At length,...

...Shakspeare ?—what name suggests a tithe of his genius and power? " No man," said the elder Coleridge, " was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same...human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language." No poet, it may be added, entertaining an inadequate conception of his calling, can approach to eminence...

...ourselves with one expression of the lofty estimate of poetic genius which he so faithfully cherished : " No man was ever yet a great poet without being at...profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language." And how familiar...

...last comedy the bold figure that Coleridge has less appropriately employed as to the early poems, that "the creative power and the intellectual energy wrestle as in a war embrace." In no other play, at least, do we find the bright imagination and fascinating grace of Shakspeare's...