 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 pages
...this beautiful universe which we inhabit; what were our consolations on this side of the grave — and what were our aspirations beyond it, if poetry did...reasoning, a power to be exerted according •TO the dull'l munition of the will. A man cannot say, ' 1 will compose poctrv." The greatest poet even cannot... | |
 | 1896 - 854 pages
...this beautiful universe which we inhabit; what were our consolations on this side of the grave — and what were our aspirations beyond it, if poetry did...owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar?" Whom has not poetry rescued from his "own spirit's hurtling harms"? Who has not been soothed by Wordsworth,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 pages
...beautiful universe which we inhabit ; what were our consolations on this side of the grave1 — an-i what were our aspirations beyond it, if poetry did not ascend to bring light and fire froni Ufff eternal regions where the owl-winged fticulty of calculation dare not ever soar I Poetry... | |
 | William H. Jones - 1855 - 280 pages
...beautiful universe which we inhabit, — what were our consolations on this side of the grave, — and what our aspirations beyond it,' — if poetry did not...faculty of calculation dare not ever soar. Poetry makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world ; it redeems from decay the visitations... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 418 pages
...patriotism, friendship ? what were the scenery of * Charming. this beautiful universe which we inhabit, if poetry did not ascend to bring light and fire from...owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar?" To enumerate its results thus is to praise sufficiently, I think, this common thing existing every... | |
 | Mrs. E. N. Gladding - 1858 - 258 pages
...The body has then become too unwieldy for that which animates it." "What would our aspirations be, if poetry did not ascend to bring light and fire from...owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar?" But where am I going? Thou art indeed a blessed resource to me, my journal ! I have been so weary to-day... | |
 | 1915 - 826 pages
...of this beautiful universe we inhabit ; what were our consolations on this side of the grave ; and what were our aspirations beyond it; if poetry did...owl,winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar? . . . Poets can colour all that they combine with the evanescent hues of this ethereal world, [their... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1879 - 216 pages
...beautiful universe which we inhabit — what were our consolations on this side of the grave — and what were our aspirations beyond it, if poetry did...those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of caleulation dare not ever soar ? Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 438 pages
...beautiful universe which we inhabit ; what were our consolations on this side of the grave — and what were our aspirations beyond it, if poetry did not ascend to bring bight and fire from those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever... | |
 | Joseph Rodes Buchanan - 1882 - 418 pages
...consolations on this side of the grave, and what were our aspirations beyond it, if poetry did not descend to bring light and fire from those eternal regions...where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not even soar ?" In this striking passage the word poetry is used with "poetic license," to express all... | |
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What were virtue, love, patriotism, friendship — what were the scenery of this beautiful universe which we inhabit ; what were our consolations on this side of the grave — and what were our aspirations beyond it, if poetry did not ascend to bring... 
