 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 pages
...like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, "I ons of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps...by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our nature... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley, Bodleian Library - 1910 - 160 pages
...reasoncont. ing5 a pOWer to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot...brightness ; this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of 1 of all... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1911 - 488 pages
...reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry ". The greatest poet even cannot...brightness; this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our nature... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1913 - 410 pages
...reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, ' I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot...fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconsistent wind, awakens to transitory brightness ; this power arises from within, like the colour... | |
 | Arthur Christopher Benson - 1913 - 300 pages
...an inconstant wind, awakes to transitory brightness. The power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our nature are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. When composition begins, inspiration... | |
 | 1913 - 462 pages
...the way and the limits.' This is precisely what Shelley says of poetry: 'The mind in creation is like a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like...inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness. . . . When composition begins, inspiration is already on the wane.' Or Shakespeare's: 'Thence comes... | |
 | Thomas Sharper Knowlson - 1917 - 334 pages
...reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. ' A man cannot say ' I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot...inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness." 2 To look for the origin of poetic illumination in a spirit outside the borders of intelligence has... | |
 | Society for Pure English - 1919 - 716 pages
...like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, "I will compose Poetry ". The greatest poet even cannot...brightness; this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our natures... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 264 pages
...reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot...brightness; this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our natures... | |
 | Robert Lynd - 1920 - 256 pages
...written more nobly or with better warrant than Shelley. "The mind," he wrote in the Defence of Poetry — the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some...inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness ; the power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed,... | |
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I will compose poetry". The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness... 
