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" Poetry turns all things to loveliness; it exalts the beauty of that which is most beautiful, and it adds beauty to that which is most deformed; it marries exultation and horror, grief and pleasure, eternity and change; it subdues to union under its light... "
The United States Magazine and Democratic Review - Page 615
1843
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Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom

Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1882 - 856 pages
...and .most beautiful in the world. Poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. Poetry turns all things to loveliness ; it exalts...it adds beauty to that which is most deformed. It transmutes all that it touches ; and every form moving within the radiance of its presence is changed...
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United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 13

1843 - 708 pages
...scions of the tree of life. It is the perfect and consummate surface and bloom of all things ; it ie as the odor and color of the rose to the texture of...deformed ; it marries exultation and horror, grief and pleastire, eternity and change ; it subduos to union, under its light yoke, all irreconcilable things....
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Essays, Letters from Abroad

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...into the universe of things. I Poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the | divinity in man. Poetry turns all things to loveliness ; it exalts...is most beautiful, and it adds beauty to that which ia most deformed ; it marries exultation and horror, grief and pleasure, eternity and change ; it subdues...
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The Catholic Institute Magazine, Volume 1

1856 - 390 pages
...inhabit, into the universe of things. Poetry redeems from decay the visitationa of the divinity in man. "Poetry turns all things to loveliness; it exalts...most beautiful, and it adds beauty to that which is deformed ; jt marries exultation and horror ; grief and pleasure ; eteniity and change ; it subdues...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley; Essays, Letters from Abroad ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 584 pages
...of things. Poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. Poetry turns all thing* to loveliness ; it exalts the beauty of that which...and pleasure, eternity and change ; it subdues to un'in under its light yoke, all irreconcilaole things. '• transmutes all that it touches, and every...
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Collier's Cyclopedia of Commercial and Social Information and Treasury of ...

1882 - 812 pages
...sentiments whatever things are really fair, good, blissful, everlasting. " Poetry," says Shelley, " turns all things to loveliness ; it exalts the beauty...that which is most beautiful, and it adds beauty to chat which is most deformed ; it marries exultation and horror, grief and pleasure, eternity and change...
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The Drama, Painting, Poetry, and Song: Embracing a Complete History of the ...

Albert Ellery Berg - 1884 - 824 pages
...us out of mere self, and makes us live the whole life hum"nity.. — -<m • jgf ».«g.% Shelley, " turns all things to loveliness ; it exalts the beauty...that which is most beautiful, and it adds beauty to chat which is most deformed ; it marries exultation and horror, grief and pleasure, eternity and change...
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Specimens of English Prose Style: From Malory to Macaulay

George Saintsbury - 1885 - 430 pages
...inhabit into the universe of things. Poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. Poetry turns all things to loveliness ; it exalts...irreconcilable things. It transmutes all that it touches, and ever)- form moving within the radiance of its presence is changed by wondrous sympathy to an incarnation...
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A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors ...

Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 pages
...Poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. 4215 Shelley : A Defence of Poetry. Poetry turns all things to loveliness; it exalts the...union, under its light yoke, all irreconcilable things. 4216 Shelley : A Defence of Poetry. You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet...
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A Defense of Poetry: Edited with Introd. and Notes

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Albert Stanburrough Cook - 1890 - 120 pages
...into the universe of things. Poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the, 20 divinity in man. poetry turns all things to loveliness ; it exalts...exultation and horror, grief and pleasure, eternity 25 and change ; it subdues to union under its light yoke all irreconcilable things. It transmutes all...
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