 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | John Wright - 1853 - 144 pagina’s
...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.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 624 pagina’s
...third power — the power of art. We have spoken of the conquests of science through the understandmg; we shall now treat of the possible victory of art...and to communicate power." Now, art in our day, we can not but think, is content to be passive rather than powerful ; it wants the glow of imagination,... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1858 - 516 pagina’s
...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 expression which is in the 16* We fear, however, that the causes of this general dislike to Wordsworth lie deeper. We apprehend... | |
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Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science. 
