Our religion has materialised itself in the fact, in the supposed fact; it has attached its emotion to the fact, and now the fact is failing it. But for poetry the idea is everything ; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches... Physical Life and Higher Light - Page 148by William Taylor - 1922 - 149 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1880 - 400 pages
...idea is everything ; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea ; the idea is the fact. The strongest...with us and govern us in all our study of poetry. In the present work it is the course of one great contributory stream to the world-river of poetry... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 634 pages
...idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part...with us and govern us in all our study of poetry. In the present work it is the course of one great contributory stream to the world-river of poetry... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 pages
...idea is everything ; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part...with us and govern us in all our study of poetry. In the present work it is the course of one great contributory stream to the world-river of poetry... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1903 - 624 pages
...rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea if the fact. The strongest part of our religion to-day...with us and govern us in all our study of poetry. In the present work it is the course of one great contributory stream to the world-river of poetry... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 632 pages
...rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea ls the fact. The strongest part of our religion to-day...with us and govern us in all our study of poetry. In the present work it is the course of one great contributory stream to the world-river of poetry... | |
| 1880 - 938 pages
...idea is everything ; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea ; the idea is the fact. The strongest...of our religion to-day is its unconscious poetry." Poetry is concerned with life ; it is the application of ideas to life ; it is at bottom a criticism... | |
| 1880 - 402 pages
...idea is everything ; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea ; the idea is the fact. The strongest...of our religion to-day is its unconscious poetry. river of poetry, or whether we seek to know them all, our governing thought should be the same. We... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 626 pages
...rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the f ,\ idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion to-day is its unconscious poetry.' ^ / r^ ls -> . [Let me be permitted to quote^ t{iesewords^ »f my own, as x c" uttering the thought... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 626 pages
...idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion to-day is \ V its unconscious poetry.' Let me be permitted to quote these words of my own, as uttering the thought... | |
| William John Courthope - 1885 - 272 pages
...idea is everything ; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotions to the idea ; the idea is the fact. The strongest...of our religion to-day is its unconscious poetry.' Forbearing any criticism on the characteristic paradox which places the power of religion in poetry,... | |
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