 But poets, or those who imagine and express this indestructible order, are not only the authors of language and of music, of the dance, and architecture, and statuary, and painting; they are the institutors of laws, and the founders of civil society,...  A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the ... - Page 29by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840Full view - About this book
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Italy - 1840 - 368 pages
...and statuary, and painting; they are the institutors of laws and the founders of civil society, and the inventors of the arts of life, and the teachers,...propinquity with the beautiful and the true, that partial apprehen* DC Augment. Sclent., cap. 1, lib. iii. sion of the agencies of the invisible world which... | |
 | English periodicals - 1842 - 572 pages
...architecture, of statuary and painting, they are the institutors of laws and founders of civil society, and the inventors of the arts of life, and the teachers...into a certain propinquity with the beautiful and true, that partial apprehension of the agencies of the invisible world which is called religion. Potts,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...and statuary, and painting ; they are the institutora of laws, and the founders of civil society, and the inventors of the arts of life,. and the teachers,...beautiful and the true, that partial apprehension of {he agencies of the invisible world which is called religion. Hence all original religions are allegorical,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge painting - 1847 - 578 pages
...statuary, and painting ; they are the institutora of laws, and the founders r,f civil society, and the inventors of the arts of life, and the teachers, who draw into a certain jirt>pinquity with the beautiful and the true, thAt partial apprehension of the agencies of the inrisible... | |
 | Irish literature - 1857 - 864 pages
...architecture, of statuary and painting, they are the institutors of laws and founders of civil society ; and the inventors of the arts of life, and the teachers...into a certain propinquity with the beautiful and true, that partial apprehension of the agencies of the invisible world, which in the infancy of society... | |
 | Charles Sotheran - 1876 - 80 pages
...and statuary, and painting ; they are the institutors of laws,*and the founders of civil society, and the inventors of the arts of life, and the teachers,...of the invisible world, which is called religion." The other is in extension of the same idea, and concludes the essay : 1 ' Poets are the hierophants... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - Poets, English - 1877 - 292 pages
...and statuary, and painting; they are the institutors of laws and the founders of civil society, and the inventors of the arts of life, and the teachers...agencies of the invisible world which is called religion. Poets, according to the circumstances of the age and nation in which they appeared, were called, in... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1877 - 296 pages
...and statuary, and painting; they are the institutors of laws and the founders of civil society, and the inventors of the arts of life, and the teachers who draw into a certain pro154 SHELLEY: pinquity with the beautiful and the true that partial apprehension of the agencies... | |
 | Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1890 - 206 pages
...itself is poetry." And again: "They are the institutors of laws and the founders of civil society, and the inventors of the arts of life, and the teachers,...of the invisible world which is called religion." 2 32. Orpheus, Linus. These, like Musseus, and perhaps Hesiod and Homer, are semi-mythical personages.... | |
 | Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1890 - 210 pages
...itself is poetry." And again : " They are the institutors of laws and the founders of civil society, and the inventors of the arts of life, and the teachers,...of the invisible world which is called religion." 2 32. Orpheus, Linus. These, like MUSEBUS, and perhaps Hesiod and Homer, are semi-mythical personages.... | |
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