 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 pages
...aiuunseen musician, who lecl rliai Q£js-are moved _vvhy. The poems of Homer ITnd his cbiTTemporaries were the delight of infant Greece : they were the...system which is the column upon which all succeeding civilization has reposed. Ifamcr embodied the ideal perfection of_his age m human T^jaracter ; HOC... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Italy - 1845 - 246 pages
...nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds ; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician,...system which is the column upon which all succeeding civilization has reposed. Homer embodied the ideal perfection of his age in human character ; nor can... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds ; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician,...system which is the column upon which all succeeding civilization has reposed. Homer embodied the ideal perfection of his age in human character_; nor can... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge painting - 1847 - 578 pages
...chunks own solitude with sweet sounds ; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an шмееп musician, who feel that they are moved and softened,...The poems of Homer and his contemporaries were the delicht of infant Greece ; they were the elements of th»t social system which is the column upon which... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 438 pages
...nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds ; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician,...system which is the column upon which all succeeding civilization has reposed. Homer embodied the ideal perfection of his age in human character ; nor can... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Prose literature - 1880 - 444 pages
...nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician,...system which is the column upon which all succeeding civilization has reposed. Homer embodied the ideal perfection of his age in human character; nor can... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 520 pages
...correspondence with their development." Of Homer and his contemporaries Shelley says that their poems were " the elements of that social system which is the column upon which all succeeding civilization has reposed." These references to Homer certainly seem to point to him as being in Shelley's... | |
 | Mary Cowden Clarke - Women - 1858 - 484 pages
...nightingale, who sits in darkness, and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds ; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician,...are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why." So meagre, and so contradictory are the accounts of Sappho herself, that we can only collect the varying... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. His auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician,...are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why. 4273 Shelley : A Defence of Poetry. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley, Albert Stanburrough Cook - Poetry - 1890 - 120 pages
...solitude with sweet soundsj his auditors are as men en\ tranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who i feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why. The poems of Homer and \Jbis contemporaries were the delight of infant 5 Greece ; they were the elements of that social system... | |
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why. 
