 | 1842 - 572 pages
...true, that partial apprehension of the agencies of the invisible world which is called religion. Potts, according to the circumstances of the age and nation...comprises and unites both these characters ; for he Ml only beholds intensely the present as it is, and discovers those laws * Miscellanies, vol. ii. p.... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...who draw into a certain propinquity with the beautiful and the true, that partial apprehension of {he agencies of the invisible world which is called religion....epochs of the world, legislators, or prophets : a poet_esscntially comprises and unites both_these_characters.J|Fori he not only beholds intensely the... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 pages
...thAt partial apprehension of the agencies of the inrisible world which is called religion. Hence k]J original religions are allegorical, or susceptible...to the circumstances of the age and nation in which ihrv appeared, were called, in the earlier epochs of the world, legislators, or prophets : a poet essentially... | |
 | Charles Sotheran - 1876 - 80 pages
...under some beautiful myth, is a straining after the pure and the good, and, as Shelley puts it : . 1 "All original religions are allegorical, or susceptible...like Janus, have a double face of false and true." It should also be considered, that it is better not to interfere with the faith of the ignorant, but... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1877 - 296 pages
...true that partial apprehension of the agencies of the invisible •world which is called religion. Poets, according to the circumstances of the age and...essentially comprises and unites both these characters." There is a little vagueness in this statement, for poets are really neither the great artificers nor... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 444 pages
...teachers, who draw into a certain propinquity with the beautiful and the true, that partial apprehension of the agencies of the invisible world which is called...age and nation in which they appeared, were called, \/'\n the earlier epochs of the world, legislators or prophets: a poet essentially comprises and unites... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley, Albert Stanburrough Cook - 1890 - 120 pages
...teachers who draw into a certain propinquity with the beautiful and the tru&^-that partial apprehension of the agencies of the invisible world which is called...religion,' Hence all original religions are allegorical, or_ susceptible of allegory, and, like 30 Janus, have a double face of false and true. Poets, according... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 132 pages
...beautiful and the true that partial appreheni sion of the agencies of the invisible world which___ is called religion. Hence all original religions are...allegorical, or susceptible of allegory, and, like 30 Janus, have a double face of false and true. Poets, according to the circumstances of the age and... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 124 pages
...the beautiful and the true that partial apprehension of the agencies of the invisible world which I is called religion. Hence all original religions are...(allegorical, or susceptible of allegory, and, like 30 ijanus, have a double face of false and true. Poets, according to the circumstances of the age and... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 1903 - 360 pages
...other in the forms of society, his_ vision of the- divine, order, the Intellectual Beauty. 93 T i Evil. the age and nation in which they appeared, were called in the earliest epoch of the world legislators or prophets, and a poet essentially comprises and unites both... | |
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... institutors of laws, and the founders of civil society, and the inventors of the arts of life, and the teachers who draw into a certain propinquity with the beautiful and the true that partial apprehension of the agencies of the invisible world which... 
