 Poetry is not 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 say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence,...  The National Review - Page 369edited by - 1856Full view - About this book
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Italy - 1840 - 360 pages
...from those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar ? Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according...for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840
...from those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar? . Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according •TO the dull'l munition of the will. A man cannot say, ' 1 will compose poctrv." The greatest poet even cannot... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 164 pages
...fronTthose eternal regions where the owl-wmged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar? j Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according...poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it ; for the jniud in creation is as a . fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an / inconstant wind,... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - Poets, English - 1878 - 189 pages
...from those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar ? Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according...poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it ; for the 1 See Letter to Oilier, Jan. 20, 1820, Shelley Memorials, p. 135. mind in creation is as a fading coal,... | |
 | JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS - 1879
...from those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar ? Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according...for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness ; this power arises... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1879 - 189 pages
...from those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of caleulation dare not ever soar ? Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the w ill. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Prose literature - 1880
...from those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare \ not ever soar ? Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to ', -| be exerted...the mind in creation is as a /\ fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness ; this power arises... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 638 pages
...from those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar ? • Poetry is not, like reasoning, a power to be exerted according...greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in 30 creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - English language - 1884 - 673 pages
...productions exemplified hie words has Ntld : " A man cannot sny, I will write poetry ; the greatest poet cannot say it, for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some irresistible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness. This power... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English language - 1885 - 367 pages
...from those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar ? Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according...for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness ; this power arises... | |
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