 | John Lancaster Spalding - Education - 1890 - 236 pages
...and consequently thought made beautiful, attractive, contagious. It is, to quote Wordsworth, " the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the...expression which is in the countenance of all science." The poet has more enthusiasm and tenderness than other men, a more sensitive soul, a more comprehensive... | |
 | John Vance Cheney - Hebrew poetry - 1891 - 312 pages
...the ever important and universally beautiful " ; Wordsworth may say, " Poetry is the breath and fine spirit of all knowledge, it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science " ; Coleridge may say, " Poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts,... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Geology - 1891 - 100 pages
...with poetry, — and here I return to the point with which I started. " Poetry," says Wordsworth, " is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression in the face of all science." If he be not endowed with any large measure of that " finer spirit," the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Poetry - 1892 - 214 pages
...beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly 15 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 Shakespeare hath said of man, 'that he looks before and... | |
 | Literature - 1892 - 954 pages
...and Science. " Poetry," he wrote in the preface to the second edition of the " Lyrical Ballads," " is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ;...expression which is in the countenance of all science. .... If the labours of men of science should ever create any material revolution, direct or indirect,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1892 - 960 pages
...and Science. " Poetry," he wrote in the preface to the second edition of the " Lyrical Ballads," " 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, direct or indirect,... | |
 | William Angus Knight - Aesthetics - 1893 - 304 pages
...and the mind of man as the mirror of the fairest and most interesting qualities of Nature." And so 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 Shakespeare hath said of man, " that he looks before and... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - Criticism - 1893 - 288 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 Shakespeare hath said of man, " that he looks before and... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - Criticism - 1893 - 284 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 Shakespeare hath said of man, " that he looks before and... | |
 | Neville McMorris - Science - 1989 - 276 pages
...position goes beyond Voltaire's. Wordsworth's equally famous effusion can be interpreted similarly: "Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all Science."29 This opinion of Wordsworth's was arrived at from the bleak view... | |
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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. 
