 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 pages
...rejoices in the presence of truth as our visihle friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the hreath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Seience. Emphatically may it ]xr said of the Poet, as Shakspeare hath said of man, " that he looks... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pages
...human bemgs loin with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly compamon. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge...expression which is in the countenance of all science. Emphatically may it be said of the poet, as Shakspeare hath said of man, " that he looks before and... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge...expression which is in the countenance of all science. Emphatically may be said of the poet, as Shakspeare hath said of man, " that he looks before and after."... | |
 | Charles Pebody - Authors, English - 1872 - 458 pages
...could find " an atmosphere of sensation in which to move his wings. '" " Poetry/' he said finely, " is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge. It...which is in the countenance of all science;" and, in his opinion, the appropriate business of poetry, her privilege and her duty, is " to treat of things... | |
 | Criticism - 1875 - 822 pages
...beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Yet poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge...expression which is in the countenance of all science. If the labors of Men of Science should ever create any material revolution in our condition and in... | |
 | George Henry Calvert - Literary Criticism - 1875 - 268 pages
...; to get the kiss from her he must first give it. Wordsworth says, " Poetry is the breath and fine spirit- of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science/* It might be called the aromatic essence of all life. A poem is the incarnation of this aroma, the condensation... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English literature - 1876 - 366 pages
...beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge...expression which is in the countenance of all Science. Emphatically may it be said of the Poet, as Shakspeare hath said of man, ' that he looks before and... | |
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Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science. 
