| Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - English literature - 1882 - 856 pages
...eloquence of truth ;" I told you that Ebenezer Elliott calls it " impassioned truth ;" that Shelley says it is " the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds ;" that Hazlitt says " it is the universal language with which the heart holds converse with Nature... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 pages
...and pictorial arts; a great statue or picture grows under the power of the artist as a child in the mother's womb ; and the very mind which directs the...gradations, or the media of the process. Poetry, is .tlis~j«eo«i -t>f--tke-be»t,.ajwi happiest mo ments of the happiest and best mind,?- We are aware... | |
| United States - 1843 - 678 pages
...the form 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,... | |
| United States - 1843 - 708 pages
...the form 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,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge painting - 1847 - 578 pages
...tbe power of the artist as a child in the mother'» womb ; and the very mind which direct« thf 13 13 in formation is incapable of accounting to itself...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
...from "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 or person, sometimes... | |
| John Watts - Free thought - 1857 - 210 pages
...poetry, will appear from the following extract from one of his prose essays : — ' Poetry,' he says, ' is the record of the best and happiest moments of...thought and feeling, sometimes associated with place and person, sometimes regarding our own mind alone, and always arising unforeseen, and departing unbidden,... | |
| American essays - 1892 - 880 pages
...touched by a certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form." Shelley's description of poetry, as " the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best men," strikes the same key, and fits prose, especially of the imaginative sort which Walter Pater calls... | |
| Charles Westerton - 1859 - 228 pages
...proud owners are with the helpless dead. Speaking of Poetry, in one of his Essays, Shelley says : — " Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments...thought and feeling, sometimes associated with place and person, sometimes regarding our own mind alone, and always arising unforeseen and departing unbidden,... | |
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