his solitude: the Poet, singing a song in which all human 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... English Prose (1137-1890) - Page 313edited by - 1909 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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;... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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