 Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire;...  Faust: A Tragedy - Page 191by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 338 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 368 pages
...than the spirit of the age. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon...moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. ESSAY ON THE LITERATURE, THE ARTS, AND THE MANNERS OF THE ATHENIANS. a .^Fragment.* THE4ieiic4_whichJntervened... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 pages
...than the spirit of the age. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon...moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. ESSAY ON THE LITERATURE, THE ARTS, AND THE MANNERS OF THE ATHENIANS. SI THE period which intervened... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1840 - 346 pages
...poetic spirit, he says — " Poets are the hiérophante of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon...; the words which express what they understand not ; tho trumpets which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...than the spirit of the age. Poets are the hiérophante of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors friends, my family, and relations are all dead, and...me more pleasing than the most splendid palace : world.' 1 •WILLIAM COWPEB. WILLIAM COWPEB, ' the most popular poet of his generation, and the best... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...than the spirit of the age. Poets are the hiérophante of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors Q ; ; q , k < ђ . j $ sbӚ h ̿V R x V t؏ɘ)fh ... l!h̺4JBm mC ?n % ,3~` 6W5ʨ(e ,; 7 f world.' WILLIAM COWPER. WILLIAM COWPER, ' the most popular poet of his generation, and the best of... | |
 | 1842 - 572 pages
...opinion or institution it poetry. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon...which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." We have cited these passages for the weight... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...gigal» tic shadows which futurity castsupqn_the_Dresent ж the words which express what they understanfi not ; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel...moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. .14 ESSAY ON THE LITERATURE, THE ARTS, AND THE MANNERS OF THE ATHENIANS. a JFrajpnent.» THE... | |
 | John William Lester - 1847 - 376 pages
...been otherwise! POLL OK. " Poets are the hieroplmnts of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon...moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." — SHELLEY. A FRIDAY, on the 19th October, now some fifty years back, — Glasgow, as ever,... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 360 pages
...Druid was a bard." COWPER. .' Poets are the Hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration, the mirrors of the gigantic shadows, which futurity casts upon...what they understand not, the trumpets which sing to hattle, and feel not what they inspire, the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 pages
...the age. Poets are the hiérophante of an nnapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the рлгшtic shadows which futurity casts upon the present ; the words which express what they undcr><&ui<! not ; the trumpets which sing to ba.lle, and ?Vvi not what they inspire ; the influence... | |
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