 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 368 pages
...incapable of accounting to itself for the origin, the gradations, or the media of the process. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. We are aware of evanescent visitations of thought and feeling, sometimes associated with place or person,... | |
 | 1840 - 424 pages
...heart. Now this is truly poetry, in the sense of one of the happiest definitions which we have seen ; " Poetry," says Shelley, " is the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds." Pleasure, without mixture of misgiving or alarm ; beauty ; love ; clear conscience... | |
 | 1843 - 708 pages
...and splendor of unfaded beauty to the secrets of anatomy and corruption." Again he says : " Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds" — " Poetry turns all things to loveliness. It exalts the beauty of that which is most beautiful, and it adds beauty... | |
 | 1843 - 678 pages
...and splendor of unfaded beauty to the secrets of anatomy and corruption." Again he says : " Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds" — " Poetry turns all things to loveliness. It exalts the beauty of that which is most beautiful, and it adds beauty... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...a high idea of the art to which he devoted his faculties. 'Poetry,' he says in one of his essays, ' )5cm r tap_m;k`tm_ p p"r#r]t%r Qr p We are aware of evanescent visitations of thought and feeling, sometimes associated with place or person,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...high idea of the art to which he devoted his faculties. 'Poetry,' he 'says in one of his essays, ' aliph. ' I hare now reigned above fifty yearn in victory or peace ; beloved by We are aware of evanescent visitations of thought and feeling, sometimes associated with place or person,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...incapable of accounting to itself for the origin, the gradations, or the media of the process. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest (moments of the happiest and best minds. We are aware of evanescent visitations of thought and feeling sometimes associated with place or person,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 pages
...incapable of accounting to itself for the origin, the gradations, or the media of the process. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. We *re aware of evanescent visitations of thought and IVvling sometimes associated with place or person,... | |
 | 1856 - 390 pages
..."A Defence of Poetry," written by Shelley, the only finished prose work he left behind him. " Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. We are aware of the evanescent visitations of thought and feeling, sometimes associated with place... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 512 pages
...conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. . . . Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. We are aware of evanescent visitations of thought and feeling sometimes associated with place or person,... | |
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. 
