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English Prose (1137-1890) - Page 313
edited by - 1909 - 544 pages
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1866 - 992 pages
...friend, in whose presence, while he joys, others joy with him. As Wordsworth has truly remarked, " Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge...expression which is in the countenance of all science." Again, " Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge; it is as immortal as the heart of man." It...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 pages
...truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he cherishes and loves it in his solitude: the Poet, sinking a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices...friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and tìner spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1836 - 376 pages
...truth as a remote ind unknown benefactor ; he cherishes and ves it in his solitude: the Poet, einging a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth us our visible "riend and hourly companion. Poetry is the wreath and finer spitit of ull knowledge;...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 20

1836 - 574 pages
...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 hath said of man, ' that he looks before and after.' He is...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 20

Robert Walsh - 1836 - 536 pages
...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 hath said of man, ' that he looks before and after.' He is...
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The New-York Review, Volume 4; Volumes 7-8

Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1839 - 546 pages
...poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as a visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the...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 after.' NO....
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The New York Review, Volume 4

Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1839 - 554 pages
...poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as a visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the...; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countcnance of all science. Emphatically may it be said of the poet, ;is Shakapeare hiith said of man,...
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The Cambridge University Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 1

1840 - 528 pages
...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,...
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The Christian Remembrancer, Volume 10

1845 - 578 pages
...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...
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The Poems of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 pages
...which all human In'ings juin wilh him, rejoices in tile presence of (ruth as our visible friend und hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit...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 after. ' He...
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