 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1921 - 158 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... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1921 - 156 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...which some invisible influence, like an "inconstant wind7~awakens to transitory brightness : this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower... | |
 | Elizabeth Atkins - 1922 - 392 pages
...thought its tribute brings Of waters. Again, in The Defense of Poetry he says, The mind in creation is a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like...it is developed, and the conscious portions of our nature are unprophetic either of its approach or departure. Wordsworth, too, thinks of his gift as... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1915 - 278 pages
...exquisite prose, he has left a record of the influence under which he himself wrote. '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... | |
 | Friedrich W. D. Brie - 1923 - 328 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...influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory bright- 20 ness ; this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower wich fades and changes... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - 1924 - 636 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... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1925 - 320 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... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1925 - 324 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... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1124 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... | |
 | Annie Edwards Powell Dodds - 1926 - 284 pages
...Shelley, Defence of Poetry. 6 Letter III to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected (Note). " The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some...inconstant wind, awakens to transitory ' brightness ; . . . when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry... | |
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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... 
