... 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 is in the... Wordsworth's Literary Criticism - Page 27by William Wordsworth - 1905 - 260 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 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...looks before and after." He is the rock of defence of human nature 5 an upholder and preserver, carrying every where with him relationship and love. In... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 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...man, " that he looks before and after." He is the Fock of defence of human nature ; an upholder and preserver, carrying every where with him relationship... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 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...looks before and after." He is the rock of defence of human nature ; an upholder and preserver, carrying every where with him relationship and love. In... | |
| William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 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...looks before and after." He is the rock of defence of human nature ; an upholder and preserver, carrying every where with him relationship and love. In... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 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...looks before and after." He is the rock of defence of human nature ; an upholder and preserver, carrying every where with him relationship and love. In... | |
| 1857 - 878 pages
...within the term, the arts in general — " poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science." " Every great poet," he likewise maintains, and therefore we would say, every great poet-artist, "... | |
| 1865 - 1194 pages
...Home." t " F»"»-" "Poetry," says Wordsworth, "is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance...science. Emphatically may it be said of the poet, as Shakspeare hath said of man, that 'he looks before and after.' He is the rock of defence for human... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...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 the rock of defence of human nature ; an upholder and preserver, carrying every where with him relationship and love. In... | |
| Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1882 - 856 pages
...poetry in its birth." " Poetry," says Wordsworth, " is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science." " No man," says Coleridge, " was ever yet a great poet without being, at the same time, a profound... | |
| Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 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...science. Emphatically may it be said of the poet, as Shakspeare hath said of man, " that he looks before and after." He is the rock of defence of human... | |
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