 The cultivation of poetry is never more to be desired than at periods when, from an excess of the selfish and calculating principle, the accumulation of the materials of external life exceed the quantity of the power of assimilating them to the internal...  The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Page 126by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880Full view - About this book
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...the 'accumulation of the materials of external life exceed the quantity of the power of assimilating them to the internal laws of human nature. The body...* Poetry is indeed something divine. It is at once tlte centre and circumference of knowledge ; it is that which сотргепeпЗё'аТГsйeпсe,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge painting - 1847 - 578 pages
...the accumulation of the materials of external life exceed the quantity of the power of assimilating them to the internal laws of human nature. The body...comprehends all science, and that to which all science must bo referred. It is at the same time the root and blossom of all other systems of thought ; it is that... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1892 - 688 pages
...for a final pronouncement. Is science to dominate poetry ; or is poetry, as Shelley described it, " that which comprehends all science, and that to which all science must be referred " ? WA HENDERSON. Dublin. SHAKSPEARE AND MOLIÈRE. Some years ago I prepared for a local literary society... | |
 | William H. Jones - 1855 - 280 pages
...the accumulation of the materials of external life exceed the quantity of the power of assimilating them to the internal laws of human nature ; the body...has then become too unwieldy for that which animates it.1 What were virtue, love, patriotism, friendship, — what were the scenery of this beautiful universe... | |
 | Mrs. E. N. Gladding - American fiction - 1858 - 258 pages
...the accumulation of the materials of external life exceed the quantity of the power of assimilating them to the internal laws of human nature. The body...then become too unwieldy for that which animates it." "What would our aspirations be, if poetry did not ascend to bring light and fire from those eternal... | |
 | 1915 - 826 pages
...majesty and utility of poetry,, Shelley warms into eloquent panegyric of his art and of its masters. Poetry is indeed something divine. It is at once the...that to which all science must be referred. It is the perfect and consummate surface and bloom of all things ; it is as the odour and the colour of the... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1878 - 424 pages
...the accumulation of the materials of external life exceed the quantity of the power of assimilating them to the internal laws of human nature. The body...animates it. Poetry is indeed something divine. It ia at once the centre and circumference of knowledge ; it is that which comprehends all science, and... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - Poets, English - 1879 - 216 pages
...the accumulation of the materials of external life exceed the quantity of the power of assimilating them to the internal laws of human nature. The body...to which all science must be referred. It is at the game time the root and blossom of all other systems of thought ; it is that from which all spring,... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...the accumulation of the materials of external life exceed the quantity of the power of assimilating them to the internal laws of human nature. The body...then become too unwieldy for that which animates it. I0 2. Poetry is indeed something divine. It is at once the centre and circumference of knowledge; it... | |
 | Joseph Rodes Buchanan - Moral education - 1882 - 418 pages
...heaven, and which flows unbidden from lips that move with inspiration. " Poetry (said a great poet) is indeed something divine. It is at once the centre...is that which comprehends all science and that to which1 all science must be referred. It is at the same time the root and blossom of all other systems... | |
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