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" The greatest poet even cannot say it ; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness ; this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and... "
A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the ... - Page 56
by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840
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Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 246 pages
...; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness ; this power...it is developed, and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable in...
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Essays, Letters from Abroad

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...for the jniud in creation is as a . fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an / inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness ;< this power...it is developed,/ and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable in...
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The works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by mrs. Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 pages
...inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brigbtne*- ; this power arises from within, like the colour of » flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our natures artunprophetic either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable in...
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The National Review, Volume 3

Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 512 pages
...it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which st>me invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power...it is developed, and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. . . . Poetry is the record of the...
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Shelley, Volume 2

John Addington Symonds - 1878 - 424 pages
...coal, which some invisible in. fiuence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness j this power arises from within, like the colour of...as it is developed, and the conscious portions of onr natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable...
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Shelley

John Addington Symonds - 1879 - 216 pages
...it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness ; this power...it is developed, and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable in...
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Shelley

John Addington Symonds - 1879 - 216 pages
...it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness ; this power...it is developed, and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable in...
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The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, how First ..., Volume 7

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 438 pages
...; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness ; this power...departure. Could this influence be durable in its original pnrity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the results ; but when composition begins,...
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The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 3

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 444 pages
...for the mind in creation is as a /\ fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness ; this power...changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions j of our nature are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable...
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Masterpieces of English Literature: Being Typical Selections of British and ...

William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...for the mind in 30 creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness. This power arises from within, like the color of a flower, which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our natures...
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